Without a Phone

While we were eating tacos and fixing up the truck--again--I accidentally left my phone in the Phillips' family car. Then the Phillips' family car went back to Ogden (with members of the Phillips' family in it of course) and it wasn't until about twenty minutes later that I asked, "Lee, where is my phone? Will you call it for me?"
The good news: Yes, they found my phone. It will be returned to me on Friday.
The bad news: I have spent my whole week very disconnected, unable to communicate, and I've had to plan much more carefully.

Here are some of the perks of being phone-less:
1. No one can bother you.
2. You can honestly say you weren't ignoring people on purpose.

Here are some of the problems I ran into:
1. I had no idea what time it was 70% of this week.
2. I couldn't call anyone to make my walk home more enjoyable.
3. I never knew when Lee would be home from work because I couldn't ask or receive a response.
4. Furthermore, when I had something specific I needed to do, I couldn't find out whether he'd be home in time or if I should find some other ride.
5. I had no way to ask for a ride anyway.

I don't think this would have been a remotely challenging situation if we also had a landline phone, but hey, we aren't made of money!

I leave my phone home, I forget to charge it, I don't look at it for a whole day, but not even having the option of calling 911 when I am home alone is...bad.