Still Not Attached

I went for a long long time not having a cell phone.  Never felt the need for it nor wanted to spend the money on it.  Then as life would have it Dave had given me his work one and I fell in love with texting.  I would much rather text than talk.  That was late 2012 I believe.  And since then I have had many phones.  All kinds of scenarios on those. 
In all that time the phone is still not attached to my hip.  I have had people get mad because I don't answer the phone.  I have had people annoyed because I didn't text right back.  I have had phones that don't let me know when a call or text came in.  I find them later, but not at the time. 
Sometimes the phone is in the bedroom as I used it to play my game before sleep.  Sometimes it is in my purse. Sometimes it is in the car. I'm lucky to have never lost it due to being in the car.  Sometimes I  have children on me and I just can't get to it. Sometimes a child has the phone. 
So really if someone calls me on it and I answer, they are really lucky.  I don't even like talking on the phone and prefer not to. I certainly am not going to keep it on my person all the time on the chance that someone is going to call.  Anything important should get a voicemail.  Anything else could just be noise.