When it comes to the use of a cell phone, I’m a dinosaur. I don’t need bells and whistles, and I don’t ask much from my cell phone. All I want to do is be able to make telephone calls with ease. When are the cell phone companies going to cater to simple folks like me? I’m not extinct (yet) and my money is green.

I don’t need the internet on my phone; I have a computer at home. I don’t want to write a letter (I tried texting a message one time and I can leave three voice messages in the time it took me). Yes, I Twitter, but I don’t delude myself into thinking there is anything I do that is exciting enough that it can’t wait until I get home. Y’all don’t really want to know what I’m doing anyway (trust me). I already have a camera, so I don’t need that.

Doesn’t someone make a simple cell phone?

It’s time for me to get a new cell phone, because my little Motorola won’t hold a charge anymore, so I’ve started searching.
I saw this Jitterbug Cell Phone, and it is exactly what I need. It’s got large buttons for my pitiful arthritic fingers to punch. It has a big screen and huge readout for my pathetic blind eyes to see. It’s got a padded earpiece, so my poor old ears can hear. It’s even got a live operator in case my feeble mind gets confused…

Wait! They call it a “Senior Cell Phone!”

I can’t be having that. That’s bordering on condescending! Can’t we just call it an “Amish Cell Phone” and leave it at that?

I’m going to swallow my pride and look into the Jitterbug Phone, but I’m not going to dance right out and buy one. I am not familiar with the company, so I don’t know how reliable they really are. I say that as if the “big” companies are reliable, but “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.”

Has anyone else out there tried this? If so, I’d love some feedback. And, if there really is an “Amish Cell Phone,” somebody point me in that direction!