Hands up who hasn't got a mobile phone?

[Debra1981]

Just started seeing a 43-year-old guy, all going well, but don't know if IABU'y suspicious of the fact that he's said he doesn't have a mobile for social calls- just one for work which he doesn't get on with. I'd love to check whether he's telling the truth with one of his mates, but know that his circle are very open with each other and it will most likely get back to him that I asked that question (clearly demonstrating mistrust), which may put him off either way iykwim. I have trust issues stemming from past relationships, including issues with mobiles, but don't know whether this is clouding my judgement with this guy. I just find it a bit strange, I don't know anyone else without one, including people in their 60's, and would be more understanding if he had one but didn't use it much... I'd just like to know how normal it is for someone of that age (he's a bit older than me) not to have a mobile?

I only got one after dd was born, emergencies and all of that. I often leave it places by mistake, and it has become just something else to remember.

A work colleague has never owned one. Couldn't makea call never mind text.
Don't worry Deb. He sounds quite sane and sensible.

He's got no kids, so no real need for one, and I've met most of his friends (some of which are mine too), not family yet but it's been mentioned, so seemingly no skeletons... I first had a mobile about 1998, no pull out arial but still a brick, it was pretty much a novelty thing at the time (I was a teenager) and I had a couple of years in between without one- until I had dd. I think once you've got kids it gives peace of mind but obviously parents got by without them before! I certainly don't bother to keep upgrading the handset- most of them are now full of features which I would never use and which to me seem a bit of a dodgy distraction to the business of staying safe and aware of one's surroundings when out and about. I'm feeling a lot better about him saying that now, thanks everyone.

I am 40, DH is 41 and neither of us has a mobile phone. I hate them with a passion.

I DO however have all the other gadgets and gizmo's. DC's have phones too.

Dh and I are both 34 and don't have one on purpose. Useless things they are.

I have one but only turn it on to make calls (and that is pretty rarely), I turn it off again straight away when i ring off. I only started carrying it after I was out for a cycle ride, got an un-repairable puncture, and had to walk 2 miles to ring DH to ask him to fetch both me and a child from school since I was obviously not gonna make it.

No one tries to ring me on it. I have never received a text -- except the one I sent myself once for practice, but I can't work out how to text most the time, as the phone does only a narrow range of predictive text. I even asked a teenager on the train once to help me work out how to do other characters, etc., in a text, and he couldn't work it out, either!!

I am 41, btw. DH has a work mobile which he ignores 99% of the time.