Saturday, January 15, 2011

#15 Phoneless Day #2

365 Blog Challenge: Post #15

As previously noted, I brilliantly left my cell phone on the Go Fish slot machine at the Borgata in Atlantic City.  I am lucky that there are still good people in the world who were willing to get the phone back to me. However, I chose to save $20 by not having my phone overnight-UPSed to me and therefore, I continue without my phone (crackberry) for day #2.  It's a little ridiculous really how much my life revolves around this phone.  I wake up, I check my phone.  I get bored, I check my phone.  I'm walking from the subway, I check my phone.  Snore.  It's been nice to have this little vacation.  The only thing I really miss is, well, my phone.  But not all of the connectedness that goes with it (e.g. email, facebook, internet access).  I really would just like to have the ability to call my husband today while he's at work, or my sister to see if her baby is enjoying peas as much as green beans (Green Bean Machine!).  But alas, email is all I have while at home, and when I'm out, I'm back in the stone age (when did cell phones become popular? the late 90s?)  I'm left to fend for myself with nothing but my debit card and my book in my bag.  I guess I'll just think of this weekend as a purification.  I'm cleansing myself from Blackberry toxins and will be fresh and new when I get it back Monday. (No promises after that.)

2 comments:

Scott said...

Cells didn't become really popular until the early 2000s. If you had one in the nineties and you were a kid, you had been very spoiled.
At least now you can't go on your phone when I'm in the middle of a sentence when I'm trying to talk to you!!!

Lauren said...

I knew you were going to comment on this one!!