This reminds me of something I once heard someone (I think a business bigwig) say: the truly busy and important people are not immediately reachable and have no time to be yakking into their phones in public places. And people aren't thinking to themselves, "Oh, what an important man! Look at the way he's chattering so loudly." They're thinking, "Would that dunderhead just for the love of little green apples shut up!"

To make yourself look more important, get three assistants who all require people to perform various feats of mental and physical strength before being allowed to talk to you. It'll surely cut down on the public cell phone usage.

Any every year it gets younger and younger. Basically of my Elementary and Middle School students I teach I would say 7 or 8 out of ten have a phone. Heck I have had 8 year old and younger come to school with a phone.

I so want to buy a jammer! Little cell-idiots are always looking at them during class.

Actaually it is a sign that I am on-call. I have to have it. I don't have to like it. A good week is one where I don't have to use it, at all.

My boss is into micro-management. Take away her crackberry and she would be lost.

If she insisted she needed needed three sub-managers and more support staff -- it would be better and we would be more cohesive as a staff.

Two of my six year old boy's friends have cell phones. One is the fancy Apple I-phone! It really amazes me- my boy has about 20 single unmatched gloves from last winter.

I'm important to the people on the other end of that phone. Because they are the ones who pay me to make sure their networks stay operational.

If I get a call in a checkout line, I'll let it go to voicemail and call them back. I'm not yakking it up in line, or on the train, or whatever. If I have to talk in public, I try to find a secluded place so I don't impact other people.

But my mother raised me right. I can't tell you about the other losers in the Starbucks that just can't shut up.

I've never owned one. My older brother (yes, what am I, 14?) finally got me a line on his plan in case of emergency with his nieces and nephew. I still can't be reached by it. I rarely remember to have it with me. And if I do have it with me, chances are really good I'm too into whatever's going on around me to bother answering. I have to be really bored to answer the phone.

Dh, on the other hand, is never without his. Because it is a work phone, and he is on-call, but he yaps plenty to friends too. He thinks I'm insane, I think I'd go insane is required to be reachable like that :)

I pick the quietest, least obnoxious ring on my phone, and then I mostly ignore it.

I like to be in control of when I talk to people. I bought the phone so that if I'm off somewhere, and I need to make a call, I can. I didn't buy a cell phone so that people can interrupt me all of the time.

A few of my best friends like to call me on their 30 minute drives home from work. I'm busy doing my own things then. I ignore them.

They leave my voice mails... then they will call me back a week later and say, "Hey, I left you a voice mail last week. Did you get it!?"

Uh... no actually... I rarely check my voice mails on my cell phone... if it's really important... I figure you'll email me. ;-)

I'm already too much of a slave to technology as it is.

He thinks I'm insane, I think I'd go insane is required to be reachable like that.

I resisted until I was 24. I got one only when my parents' health started to decline and I wanted them to be able to reach me easily.

Now it's my only phone (my husband has his), and I like it because I know when it rings, it's always for me, and when his rings, it's always for him. I usually ignore it and use Google Voice to get a transcription unless it's someone related to my father's care.

I finally broke down and got one so my son's school could contact me if I were away from my house. I live way out in the sticks so a trip to the grocery store takes a couple of hours round trip.

Only about 10 persons have my number. And I have the smallest plan available (25 minutes per month for $15, something Verizon no longer offers openly). I rarely go over my allotment of minutes.

I don't even turn the phone on until I am in the car and driving.

My 16 year old son has one. I was not keen but I gave him my aunt's prepaid phone with 1000 minutes on it after she died. It was darn convenient. It was especially helpful during wrestling season when he is on road trips. I won't pay for an upgrade for him. He still has a freebie phone and pre-pay T-mobile minutes. I buy him the first 1000 minute card at the beginning of the school year and he has to buy the reloads so I can reach him if I need to.