Eight Minutes, Fourteen Days

My girlfriend called me at 8 AM today, as I was on my way to work. It was a nice surprise as I normally don't here from her until after lunch. Even though she was just calling to say hi, it was a nice way to break up the monotony of the morning commute in rush hour traffic. After hanging up my cell phone, I thought it would be a good idea to check my cell phone minutes seeing as I had two more weeks before my billing cycle reset. The plan I "pay" for is 400 minutes a month. Free nights and weekends. Free Verizon to Verizon calling. It's a good deal and I share it with my mom for a good price. Since she really only has the phone for emergencies, we split the minutes 350 for myself and 50 for her. If we go over, I think it's something like 45cents a minute, which can add up quick. I've gone over my minutes a couple times, with no ill effects, because my mom didn't go over hers. Last month, which was pretty busy at work, I knew that I was going to go over mine and it turned out that it wasn't as bad as a I thought it was going to be. But when I checked my minutes this morning, I saw that I had 8 minutes left for this billing cycle. Which ends on August 15th. I rarely use my phone during "nights(after 9 PM)," though I like to abuse the free weekend minutes. So now I have eight minutes to spread out over 14 days. Three hundred and thirty six hours! Twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes! I have to chose which of those 8 minutes I deem most important over the next two weeks. Furthermore, I have to determine whether those minutes should be Calls or Answers. If I'm out on an errand for work and they call, are they wondering what I want for lunch? Or should I not drive out to Santa Monica to pick up tapes? Or do they need urgent blackjack advice? If my girlfriend is calling me, can I call her back from a land line? What about that restricted number? What about that unknown number? My sister? The Long Beach Police Department? My old job? Steve Agee? A young man can't be given such important choices at such young an age! It's unfair and is causing me stress and my hair is going to fall out and I'll be impotent and bipolar. A million different things will happen to me because I can't decide which 8 minutes out of the next 20160 are the most important in the next three hundred and thirty six hours of my life. You can't put a cellular gun to my head like this and expect me to pull the trigger. The next 14 days will reveal which 8 minutes are the most important. In my heart I will know for sure what is important at what time. The Bard once said, "To thine own self, be true!" Confuscious said, "Only man without time, truly understands how valuable it is." and the Buddha said, "Just Do It." Such wise, almost supernatural men genuinely understand the nature of mankind- a species without understanding. And that, Mom, is why I went over my cell phone minutes.