I went without a cell phone for the first half of my life, and then some maybe. If you got caught in traffic or otherwise held up, there was no way to notify anyone about it. You just dealt with it. I do sometimes wonder what I used to do with downtime when I had no iPhone. These days if I have to sit and wait for something, like a doctor appointment, the first thing I do is pull out the phone. And my Apple Watch keeps me apprised of a whole slew of things. I think telling me what time it is seems to be the least important thing it does.
