I bought a new phone today!

[Ninurta]

Disclaimer: I'm a Luddite...

Me too. My Missus has one and I think there's a button on the side of it that makes it
light up. But forget about making it into a telephone, it has a swipe-mechanism to
get into it or something.

I need broken windows of a lonely call-box, dead leaves, curly wires and the smell of
stale urine to fulfil my idea of remote communication.

I know the feeling.

I got this mobile phone solely because I thought it was neat for a phone to know which way it was pointing even if I didn't. Grace has operational control of it, and I rarely even see it unless I'm going to Walmart. It's her window on the world, it seems. I have big black boxes with rows of funny buttons for that. Grace knows how to use the phone thingy, and I mostly don't have a clue. I can manage to make a call out on it about 6 times out of every 10 attempts.

The voice mail thingy on it entirely mystifies me. When I carried a cell phone, my voice mail filled entirely up, because I had no clue how to even listen to those little recordings, much less how to get them out of the phone.

I'm with @"Freija" on the cars, though. All my life I've bought what I called "Bic cars" - I'd buy then for between 150 dollars and maybe 4 or 5 hundred dollars, drive 'em until the wheels fell off, then throw them away and get another one. Even my Jeep I only paid 600 bucks for... but it would climb a telephone pole ... whenever I could get it running!

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