Would You Pay $1000 For A Phone?

I wouldn’t.

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Clearly, I’m not meant to be rich because I can’t begin to understand the mindset that thinks it’s okay to spend $1000 on a cell phone.

I mean, okay, maybe once every, what, five years? If I could get a phone to last five years, maybe I could rationalize the expenditure. Maybe.

But my boss does this every six months or so. What is his family doing, dropping their phones in the toilet? Tossing them out a car window? Eating them?

The wife or the daughter probably needs a new phone for their trip to the Caribbean next week, which necessitated a trip to Buffalo for “emergency passport renewal.”

The closest emergency passport renewal office is in Buffalo, which makes sense if you think about it. Where better to put a bureaucratic snake pit than Buffalo?

Call me crazy, but I thought an emergency meant something that was life or death. Apparently they’re going to die if they don’t go on vacation to the Turks and Caicos.

But see, here’s the thing. My phone does the exact same thing their phones do — it makes calls and it takes pictures.

I think mine cost $100 and it was paid off a long time ago.

Sure, I’d like to upgrade to something with a better camera, but that’s because…