I Want A Fancy Big Girl Phone

I just got a personal cell phone recently. I know this seems impossible, but you have to understand that I don't want to be found by friends and family when I am out. Before the Teenager started driving, I could always be found at home or at work (which was only 800 yards away). Once he embarked on his adult life, I was free to roam about unencumbered by an electronic leash.

For about five minutes.

He begged me to get a cell phone for emergencies and I resisted because his emergencies are usually of the cash shortage kind. I want him to be resourceful in a crisis and learn to panhandle or at the very least be able to short change dumb cashiers.

But I finally gave in to the nagging by letting he and my husband go buy me a "Track Phone" with twenty dollars worth of minutes since that would last me for at least a year of emergencies.

Then I tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it for a month.

Once I began driving every Saturday to Tallahassee, I did decide to use it so that I could be reached if indeed there was actually an emergency of some sort.

It is quite useful. If I get pissed at the Teenager, now I can yell at him from the road when I'm actually in the moment of maternal rage. Once the moment passes, I may forget what I was angry about by the time I get home.

So I'm out a few weeks ago with girlfriends having drinks when I notice that one of my friends has a Blackberry Storm. It's really pretty and shiny, plus the entire time we are talking she is texting and Twittering away.

My other friend is also texting away to a variety of people. She has a really nice phone too.

I now have cell phone envy. How can I pull out my Crack Fone around everyone's really cool phone?

I'm a cell phone loser. I didn't dare pull mine out to text anyone. First of all, my keys don't light up so I can't actually see the little letters anyway. And my screen is so small I get about six words at a time, which made it very difficult the other night when a friend was texting me the back story on her complicated love life and all the other good gossip happening around us.

Which is very cool. I like being able to silently text gossip about everyone with other women while we all appear to be eating dinner. Now when we all get up to go to the bathroom together, you can be assured we aren't in there talking about anyone.

We can finally go back to making out and re-doing each other's hair in the ladies room and not just engaging in catty backstabbing.

Last week I was finally able to pry the Teenager off of our phone plan by cancelling his iPhone after he accidentally destroyed it (no, he never was able to get Apple to replace it---yet). Now he has his own plan that he pays by the month, which frees me up to start looking at cute phones. I'm thinking Palm Pre, though the Teenager is pretty happy with his G1 phone.

Does anyone have suggestions? I use a phone for texting gossip, reading blogs, music, photographing myself having various procedures so that I can blog about them, and maybe for the Teenager to reach me in case of a real emergency.

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Cult Diva