Bluebird of happiness

I find that a lot of aspects of cell phones/cell phone company services are rip-offs. However, simply having a cell phone, I think, is cheaper than relying on a land line for your phone calls. Now, I suppose I could schedule in my friends and family to call me on my land line (requiring that I be at home and not able to move around too much in the house) so that they would pay for all of the long distance calls, but cell phones are more convenient because I can do my cleaning while on the phone, I can talk on the phone while I'm out such as on my walking commute (though I try to avoid using it too much in public places where other people will be annoyed), etc. On the weekends and in the evenings all minutes are free, and between people of my same company they are free. The only part that annoys me is that we can't opt for fewer minutes at a cheaper rate because we're already on the cheapest version (700 for the two of us to share, I think).

But yeah, given that nearly all of our people live far away and phoning is the best method of communication, I'm glad we have the phones. It's also convenient when we need to contact each other during the day or at other times, though that part of it is sort of a luxury that we could perhaps do without.