Naked! Naked, I say!

The other day I left home without my cell phone. You know how I felt. Naked! Like all those bad dreams about showing up for a job interview without a bra. Or giving a speech with your fly unzipped. OMG!

I spent the day reaching for it. Red light: I'll make a call. Not. Take a break: I'll play Scrabble. Not. Send a text: Nope. Get my email. NOT!

By the end of the day I couldn't wait to get home to my iphone and the world it connects me to. Can we even remember fishing around for a quarter for the pay phone?

So, I wasn't at all surprised to read today that "Four Out of Five Never Leave Home Without It." A survey just released from Synovate looked at global mobile phone usage. And, the word is: we are woefully attached. Some 82% of Americans say they never leave home without their cell phone and half of them claim they "cannot live without it." They even sleep with it nearby.

Here's a factoid: Of all the human beans on the planet, more own a cell phone than do not.

Aside from the "ubiquitous calling and SMS functions," do you want to know what we use our phones for most often? Alarm clock. Camera. Games.

We also lie 31% of the time about where we are or why we're running late when we text. We break up with significant others, get dumped by significant others, flirt with potential new significant others (and other's 'others') mobily, on the run, in 140 characters or less.

I chastised myself for being so shallow and fretting about my phone being somewhere I was not. Now I know. The survey says: The cell phone is our remote control for life. And our skin? Well, we won't leave home without that, either.