Now the kids be on they phone and never talk to me.
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I've been offered more babies to hold than times people have rang me
Retvrn to the days of early cell phones where it was easier to call than text.
And the rollout of easy texting was not even. I still have flashbacks to people with unlimited texting sending another message that was just one word, and me needing to spend another 1/2 minute to see it. You could have said everything in the last five texts in a 30-second call! This could have been food money! 
Note for young people who may have never known limited calling and texting plans: "Minutes" here refers to credits that you spent on calls and texts, that you needed to pay to replenish.
Phones that could only store 10 SMSesses
O shit that's right, had to delete them to make room. I think I have an old .txt backed up somewhere where I typed by hand conversations I wanted to preserve into my PC.
And this is why every phone I’ve owned has stayed on silent.
I have a phone so that I can make calls wherever I’m at (but let’s be real, I’m not talking on the phone unless I have to), not so people can reach me wherever they want. Just like work email. I have it for my needs, not those of my coworkers.