What was life like before cell phones?

I remember a time when there was no such thing as a cell phone. But now I cant live without it. It is like a lifeline for me. I get anxious if I am in the car and I have no cell phone. What if I break down or what if I am in an accident? I know that there was a time when you would just walk to the nearest house and borrow a phone. Well my lifeline snapped in half today. I was coming home from Mississippi with my friend Kim when my razor phone (which I absolutely love) died. Kim told me to look at the battery and when I opened it up she said "Oh your phone has water damage." Not a good thing to have! She was nice enough to drive me to my Verizon dealer and watch Casey while I dealt with it. I wont go into the details but 1 hour later I still didnt have a phone and I was unhappy with the place I went. Come to find out it was just an autorized dealer and not a company store. We rode down the street to the next corner and went to the company store. I had a new phone in less than 10 minutes! And it is a pretty purple! I love it. But there is nothing worse than trying to load numbers that you lost from the old phone and download ringtones. I still dont have some of the numbers loaded. So if I call you asking for your number this is why.