100 things cooler than my phone

I took this photo at the Mona Lisa while visiting the Louvre.

I just read about a new fear called nomophobia — the fear of losing your phone. A survey found that 77 percent of people aged 18-24 years old felt they had some sort of this fear. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I'm thankful for Google Maps that get me around the godforsaken pile of spaghetti they call roads in Pittsburgh and great Snapchats of unexplainable things to my best friends, but for the love of god 77 percent?

People are always on their phones. I once sat in a room trying to spend time with like six people from college I hadn't seen in months... and their idea of hanging out was sitting on their phones. I ended up leaving early and going on a sweet walk or something.

I made this list with 100 things that are cooler than my phone. I'm not sorry that at least 34 of them are food and beverages.

1. Mustard
2. The last green leaves holdin' on for dear life and holy chlorophyll on the trees in October
3. Golden Retrievers
4. Winning the lottery
5. When icy roads get salted before you need to drive on them
6. The sun peeking through the cloud all like "HEY! IT'S ME GOD!"
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. How To Train Your Dragon 2
9. Positive vibes
10. Cloudless sky
11. Cards Against Humanity
12. Napping
13. When the brakes on your car work
14. When you drive down a huge hill after just filling up your Prius and your fuel economy reads 100 MPG and you're all like "I HAVE A CAR FROM THE FUTURE."
15. Having a license plate with an otter on it
16. The fact that paying for stranger's coffee is a thing that happens frequently
17. The first 70 degree day in the spring
18. Downton Abbey
19. Hiking
20. Feta cheese
21. Penguins
22. When your favorite book becomes a movie... and it's actually really good
23. People who use the word whom correctly
24. Red wine blends
25. Board games 
26. More specifically, word board games
27. When I don't have to explain what a copywriter does
28. When you run into another Ohio University Bobcat 1,000 miles away from Ohio
29. Climbing on top of giant rocks and shouting profanity
30. Having actual designated pajamas that you wear every night
31. Curiosity
32. National Public Radio
33. Catching every green light on a long road
34. How quickly poop stories escalate
35. Emerald Green
36. Using map my run after a jog and finding out you've gone longer than you thought
37. Getting actual physical pieces of mail from friends
38. French fries that still have a little bit of potato skin on them
39. Giant pickles
40. Books you can't put down
41. The Moth radio hour
42. Dog adoptions
43. Amazon Prime
44. Cold winter air filling your lungs on a run
45. Finally peeing after having to hold it for way too long
46. Genuine in person compliments
47. Buffoonery
48. The person who decided putting fruits like berries and apples on salads was a good idea
49. Vanilla ice cream
50. Velveeta shells and cheese
51. Coffee naps
52. Voting
53. Getting quoted in the newspaper
54. Hockey
55. Fleece
56. Not referring to college as the "best years of your life"
57. Scarves
58. Getting tomato juice on airplanes
59. Waking up feeling good before your alarm clock goes off 
60. Getting to Chipotle right before the lunch rush and not having to wait in line but then you look behind you and the line starts to form and you're all like "hell yeah, my timing is perfect."
61. The actually well done news stories side of BuzzFeed
62. Crayons
63. The first sip of apple cider in the fall
64. The crazy drugged-out person always talking to himself on the bus
65. The insane amount of inspirational metaphors on The Biggest Loser
66. Nurses
67. The fact that Betty White just turned 93 and she's peaking
68. Twice-baked potatoes
69. The invention of ground turkey to replace ground beef
70. Meaningful lyricism
71. Marching bands
72. The smell of a blown out match
73. Pop culture references
74. Glass ceiling crackers
75. Cracker crackers
76. Fresh new kicks
77. An oddly trafficless commute
78. Ab-hurting laughs
79. Sharing dessert
80. Gift cards
81. Paint
82. Seeing children at restaurants without tablets in their faces
83. Being invited to your neighbor's 4th birthday party — especially when it's dinosaur themed
84. Diving to ship wrecks 100 ft. under the sea
85. Chapstick
86. When two friends start dating and everybody's baffled they didn't think of how perfect they were together
87. Smoothies
88. S'mores
89. Nachos
90. Having a clean car in the middle of January
91. Actually taking the time to understand other religions
92. Family dinners
93. No phones at the dinner table rules
94. When you aren't the only one who isn't on her phone
95. People who make a point to keep their phones away while they're driving
96. Being able to confront humans when there's been a miscommunication or we're feeling confused or upset
97. Looking people in the eyes
98. Giving actual, physical hugs
99. Having actual, real conversation
100. Spending actual, physical time with a human being