Yes, he did have that option and he chose not to do it. It wasn’t that important to him. My son started working at age 14 and save $10,000 for college over 10 years ago. He’s not a slacker. And like I said, he never complained about it. But, years later he told me that it was difficult making plans while everyone else was doing it easily with their phones. He’s 29 years old now. It’s ancient history. He just had his first child and my first grandchild. It will be interesting to see when that child gets his first phone.
It will probably be a chip implanted into his brain with antennae embedded into his earlobes and he dials out by thinking of the phone number. He closes his eyes to see texts flashed on the back of his eyelids. He hears and talks through a regular Bluetooth headset and his Facebook comments appear on his wristwatch/display as he thinks of them.