Smartphone Addiction

[Merlin]

I have a landline, yes.  People can call me lol.  I even have an answering machine, so if I'm not at home they can leave a message.
I don't need a phone- I teach at a college and am an author. None of which requires a phone.  I use social media daily -  posting on my twitter, FB, website and inside my 50 facebook groups, roughly 100+ interactions daily - still don't need a phone.

Ok, so what are you going to do if your car breaks down one day?  I'm totally curious!

Well, I've been a driver for over 30 years and have had my car break down exactly twice. Once as a teen (long before cell phones) and once in the parking lot of Target last year.  I went inside and asked customer service if I could use the phone, and I called my husband.  My husband has been driving the same number of years, he's broken down twice - both before cell phones.  None of my kids have ever broken down - collective years driving about 15.  My small sample is a rate of  4 breakdowns over 75 years.  I like my odds.  
BUT, if I decide to get a phone I will, but I'm not going to make up potential crisis if I don't have one to justify getting one.  I just don't need one- if I felt like I did, I would get one.

Your rate is better than mine!  I ran out of gas twice in a week last year (turns out the gas gauge was faulty).  Battery died year before in a dark parking lot after hours.  My husband got into a car accident on the freeway a couple of years ago.  Each time, phone was needed, we weren't anywhere near a phone.

But I get your point.

The necessity for a cellphone for emergencies notwithstanding, the GPS on my phone has also saved my butt on several occasions. There have also been times when I needed to access an important document or to look up something for work or taxes or whatnot, and being able to pull up Dropbox or a web browser on my phone has been a lifesaver.

I don't always need my smartphone, but the times when I do more than make up for the costs associated with owning the phone.