Can you handle being away from your cell phone?

A recent study conducted by PostOffice in the UK seems wholly appropriate, since I’ll be away for the weekend in an area where I’m 99 percent sure there will be no cell phone reception. Anyway, they looked at 2,163 adults, which is a decent sample size. Overall, they found that 58 percent of men and 48 percent of women “admitting to experiencing feelings of anxiety when they run out of battery or credit, lose their phone or have no network coverage.” Hopefully, I won’t have such an anxious feeling this weekend.

Judging from the survey results, it appears that 75 percent of respondents never turn off their cell phones. I have a feeling that number would be a bit larger in the U.S. Of the whole, nine percent said they were too anxious to turn off the phone. Once again, given the number of people with corporate phones, I think that number would be a bit higher in the U.S. The survey further says that 10 percent said they don’t turn it off because they need to be contactable by work. Seems like they just might be hiding the anxiety felt by the other nine percent.

Here’s the killer, though. Eighteen percent of respondents, when asked what activities they would interrupt to take a call, said that they would when in bed with someone else. Now, I’m not sure exactly what was meant by the questions, nor the response. But, uh, yeah, I just hope you’re not one of those people.

How about everyone out there? Do you get anxious if you use your minutes a day or so before the end of the month?

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