Do you completely rely on a cell phone? What happens when it doesn't work?

I do not have a home phone, just a cell phone. I hate it when I don't have a phone. It is terrible trying to get in touch with someone, and even more frustrating trying to find a pay phone. I had not one, but 2 cell phones get laid in water that covered them.(Mu ex laid them on the counter, spilled water and didnt clean it up well.)I try to always keep atleast one phone at all times.

I have a home phone and a mobile, but if I'm home there's no reason to use my mobile. If my partner is home I often switch it off, he usually calls me on it from work though. His mobile phone, on the other hand, is useless! 90% of the time when I try to call him on it, it goes straight to voicemail. He says its a fault with the phone, if I call it when hes in the house with me it works but when he isn't here it usually doesn't, which seems strange to me. I have to call him on his work phone.

After Katrina all we had was cell phones! When I left the city 2 days after the storm I was able to call a cousin from the highway and get directions to his house (he lives an hour away). The land line phone had been working up until that morning and when I came back from feeding my friend's cats around the corner it was cut off.

When I was in B.R. in the weeks after the storm you could barely make calls the circuits were so busy. You had to send text messages between 8 am and 11 pm; that's how bad it was. After I got back I still went without the land line phone for 2 months and I was lucky. Other areas had to go without service for way longer.

Nowadays people have cell phones as their only phone and they have area codes from all over the country. Some people even use prepaid phone service because that is all they need. My SIM card went bad a few weeks ago and I immediately went to the phone store the next morning and got another one.