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Merry Wireless Technology Christmas

This Christmas my family celebrated the addition of two new members to our wireless phone share plans—my father and my 12-year-old nephew.  My father, who had steadfastly rejected participation in any plan which required a contract and a monthly payment in favor of a pay-per-use plan, dropped and broke his oversized dinosaur at a local grocery store shortly after hearing my mother and I talk of renewing our Verizon contract and getting shiny new phones.  Left with the choice of having no phone, purchasing a newer obsolete model for his Alltel pay-as-you-go plan, or jumping on the family share bandwagon, he, after some serious deliberation, closed his eyes and took the plunge joining my mother and me.  Of course, he muddied the waters by waiting until the day after mom and I had already signed on the dotted line and chosen our phones, but nonetheless he’s in now and we are never letting him out of our circle. (Never mind that we have a Verizon plan that does not qualify for a “circle”.)  My nephew, like most children today, was born with the instinct to attach himself to a wireless device.  It made no never mind to him how or why it happened, he just wanted it to happen.  This year at Christmas, his parents, my sis and BIL, finally decided that he was of age, got him a new LG Chocolate Touch and added him to their family plan.  Two new plan members, five new phones, and a couple of portable gaming devices later and my family was lucky to have communicated at all except by electronic means on Christmas Day.