I hate phones. I always forget to charge them if I bring it with me, so I leave it at home, and my job doesn't let us take calls anyway. (We certainly don't have our own lines at work like every form tends to assume.) I don't like having to literally drop everything I was doing to immediately answer some caller. I sound like a boy on the phone, to the point of getting called "Mr. Burke" by every political fundraising caller in the Pacific Time Zone

I don't like texting either, since I have a dumbphone of the "hit 2 once for A, twice for B, and thrice for C" type. I don't want to spend the money for a smartphone and a monthly plan when I can just E-mail/IM/post at people instead for just the $45/month flat Internet cost.

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'Cause when you've given up,
When no matter what you do it's never good enough,
When you never thought that it could ever get this tough,
That's when you feel my kind of love.