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There are certain things I shouldn’t be allowed to have.

1. Coffee after 5 pm (even though it tastes better at night)
2. A permit to carry a gun. (only one Seguin female should have that right)
3. Anything sharp
4. A credit card

and most importantly,

5. a cell phone that fits into my back pocket.

If the reports are true about brain tumors from cell phones, I should have one the size of a cantalope. I have been a cell phone user all the way back to the bag phone days…the years after that when they looked like giant gray bricks…when they slimmed down…when they got smaller…when you could change the face of them…when you could flip them open…I was a test market of people that tested ‘voice dialing’….I have met and had dinner with the founder of Cellular One (then became AT&T Wireless and now Suckular..er, Cingular) Craig McCaw.

I am a proud cell phone user. I have had my share of cellular phones. I have DROPPED every single phone I have owned…but today I crossed a line.

We have three cellular phones in our home. Shauns, mine, and the ‘kids’. To say I lose my phone often is an understatement. I can lose my phone for weeks and not miss it too much because I just use the kid’s phone.

My phone right now is MIA. I have looked in all the places I put my phone; Camera Bag, Coat Pocket, back pocket, floor of the minivan, friends houses, under the bed….nothing. It’s all good though…I can just use the kids.

IF I HAD NOT LEFT IT IN MY BACK POCKET AND WASHED IT!

Who’s bright idea was it to allow cell phones to be so small that you can put them IN YOUR POCKET?
Don’t you remember the good ol’ days when you had to have a leather bag designed to fit the phone? REMEMBER when you had to keep your phone IN THE CAR. CAR PHONE?

You know the sounds that scare you out of your mind? The sound of wheels screetching behind you. The sound of your child when he or she has fallen. The sound of your in-laws saying they are staying for a week.
I’m going to add the sound of my cell phone bouncing around in the dryer to that list.

Guess what I am asking Santa for Christmas?

A BAG PHONE!