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I could easily do without a phone, but my wife won't let me. :-)
I've no idea how people don't lose their minds on over phone notifications. Or maybe they slowly are? I'm fine with reminders to put the garbage out, or that some appointment is coming up. But I literally become angry over incoming text messages, as though someone else is insisting I do things (what I consider) "the stupid way". Why would I want to fight with a keyboard smaller than my hand?
Okay, there's voice to text... but just getting the phone into that mode seems more hassle than worth. And Cthulhu forbid you screw up and attempt to correct it manually. I guess you can just start over, but that quickly starts to feel like being a slave to a device.
Nope.
Whoa! A CB radio? That's still a thing? I had no idea. I mean, I hail from the days of the novelty song "Convoy", and recall wanting one. But it just wasn't practical on many fronts - mainly the "couldn't afford it" front.
But, oh, the envy.
Don't need such these days. I'm too tired of people to get a device that implies more people.
Well, that's not completely true. I oscillate in and out of too tired of people. I get tired of 'em, then suddenly yearn for 'em again, and of course soon enough remember why I got tired of 'em.
It's... well, you know.
Then again, voices can be (originally "are") pretty special.
I just want to hear the chatter going up and down Highway 67 and Highway 55. A Cobra CB radio is just over $100, and it's an "out there" purchase - not soon or for certain. About as death and tax-less as it comes ;)