26 Things #26 - Modern

We have always been "early adopters" when it comes to technology and geeky toys. I think I get it from my parents (my father brought home a Mac in 1984!), but Jim, whose parents weren't that way at all, is a master of early adoption. He bought me my first cell phone in 1992 (remember those HUGE brick-like things that cost around $2 a minute to talk on?), we've had satellite radio since the very beginning (long before Howard Stern made it a household term), and it goes on and on. For some reason, though, we were late to the texting thing. I remember when I first heard about it, I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. Who on earth would want to do that - sending a short little note to someone, less than 200 characters in length - and why? What's the point? Surely, it would never catch on, so we never added texting to our cell plan. Then I started getting texts from friends who just assumed that I had a plan. And soon I found myself sending quick snippets to Jim about this-that-and-the-other, and he was getting them from other people too. So we added the minimum texting plan to our cell phones, just to see how much we would really use it. Uh, yeah. We used it. A lot. Within a few months, we threw all caution to the wind and made our texting plan "unlimited." (Living on the edge, weren't we?)  These days, I sometimes wonder how we lived without texting! It's so convenient! So fast! So easy! So, why did we wait so long?