When I was a teenager, my mother advised me to place a dime in the toe of my stockings in case I needed to place an emergency call home.  I followed my mother’s advice and did indeed carry a dime in the reinforced toe of my pantyhose.  Although thankfully, I never had to ruin a perfectly good pair of Leggs to retrieve it.

Later when the price of public phone calls calls skyrocketed to two dimes and a nickel, I pursued comfort and got myself a long-distance MCI calling card.  Which I hid in my bra.

When I could finally afford to get my own pretty pink princess phone using hard earned baby sitting income, I at last attained some semblance of a private phone conversation in the sanctity of my teenaged bedroom.

Today I am a wreck.  You see, we have no landline.  Just one cell phone each.  A lifeline really.  So today, I left the store at noon to "work from home".  (ie: watch Amazing Race from last night, update my facebook status...etc.) On my way home, in the car, I like to return phone calls.  It is the ultimate in efficiency!  (Don't judge - I have a hands free device!) ANYWAY, I get about half way home and panic strikes.  I forgot my phone at the store!  Seriously.  This is a BIG DEAL!  I had an appt. in Onalaska so I couldn't turn around and get it.  So here I sit - with the entire world wide web in front of me yet I feel lost.  Lost without my cell phone.  Only 15 and a half hours until we are together again....sigh....

What would YOU be lost without for a day?

Kris