Good riddance
I canceled my cell phone from Verizon yesterday! 
No more two year contracts, no more paying for “services” and “features” I don’t use or even need, no more tether.
This month I put a total of 20 minutes on my cell phone. I had a 450 minute plan (at $50 per month) and never once got even close to 200 minutes. Previous months I was averaging 50 minutes per month. Honestly though does it really cost the phone companies money if you use 460 minutes instead of 450 minutes? Does it warrant the overage charges? Aren’t these numbers just aributary values to force higher prices on people for different plans?
When I called a while back to cancel my subscription they tried to get me into a special plan (not advertised) of 100 minutes. “Really?” I said “How much is that?”
$29.99 per month.
Hmm… doesn’t seem so special.
I remember a time before cell phones when you’d make arrangements before hand. You’d plan out with friends what was going to happen tomorrow or that day and then you showed up at the proper time and place. You fraking showed up! Now it’s so scattered and people rarely plan ahead anymore. Or when they do it’s always three different plans that are worked out on the fly because you can just call everyone to update the plan at the last minute. I hate last minute. Make a plan and stick to it! It’s like some form of inter-personal social laziness.
Cell phones are billed as a device that brings people together. That may be true but it also makes it easier to keep them apart. Txt msg A1 l8ly?
See anyone talking on their phone while going through the check-out line? What about on the bus? Mall? Store? Theater?
While in the car do children look out the window at the world around them or talk with their parents or are they texting/talking/gaming/listening to music on their cell phones or clued to the mini-dvd player in the ceiling of the mini-van?
“The things that you own, end up owning you.” - Tyler Durden.