Cellular Daze

They've only been around for alittle under a decade now but the advances in technology and amazing social demand has skyrocketed the Wireless industry to one of the largest in the world. And now cell phones are everywhere: I have one, my parents have two, all my friends have phones (some 2 of 'em if counting work cells) even my 75 yr old grandparents and 13 yr old schoolchildren are mobile today. Like the internet, cell phones have integrated themselves so deeply into our day-to-day lives that honestly could you even think of going without them?

I don't really consider myself a major phone talker although recently I discovered a feature on my new LG 2200 that may make me reconsider. The new upgraded phone was a present for Christmas (mainly because two beautiful women decided to dunk my old Moto in some ice water) but anyway it has been alittle over a month now since I got my LG and I just discovered a counter on my phone which tracks the overall time of both dialed and received calls. Using this counter I discovered in the one month I have had my new phone I racked up a total of 21:28 on it. Damn, that's right, 21 hours 28 minutes or 1288 minutes! I've practically spent one entire day of January on the phone! I'm just estimating that those numbers are basically accurate and will continue if not grow some as I use my phone for more work related calls. So now lets do the math...Give or take 24 hrs of phone use a month, that's 12 full 24 hrs periods a year, and after 5 yrs that will make it 60 full days of talking. So with these numbers staying true (factoring in growth) by the time I am 51 yrs old like my Father, I will have spent an estimated 342 full days talking on my freakin' cell phone! (that's 492,480 minutes, and one hellva Cingular bill) Seriously almost a entire year of my life!
Kinda crazy to think about huh?
And I don't even use mine that much... talk about a Cellular Daze, lets just hope all those "cell phones cause cancer" rumors were just bullshit.