We are users of cellphones, mobile phones, handphones or whatever you want to call them. We’re used to being able to change plans spontaneously because it’s easy to tell the other person anytime what the new plan is. So it’s hard for us to go back to making plans in situations where we don’t both have a phone.

And right now, we don’t both have a phone.

On Sunday, that left me waiting at the arranged time and place for a long time.

It wasn’t really raining. That would have made it worse. But it was a gloomy evening, all the same.