Wednesday Visual Bliss: Phone Phixed
The new cell phone.Last month my cell phone lost the will to live. I mailed it in for repair, and received the package with a replacement yesterday. Until last month, I had no idea how much I'd miss the thing. When I first got one 5 few years ago, the idea was "well, in case something happens," which I can appreciate because of that time I broke down on the interstate, in the winter, 6 months pregnant, and was passed by a steady 3 lane stream of cars, trucks, and two police cars for over an hour.
It took a while for me to start to use the thing. Then I was calling for all kinds of reasons. It replaced my long distance service. It replaced my watch. It coordinates "meeting up" with a group during an expedition to amusement parks and the like. Heck, it's even a way for my sister-in-law to constantly find a way to interrupt any minor trip we take with some emergency call about how to do a simple thing on her computer (her being employed as a computer specialist, of course.)
Okay, that last one I can do without.
Now it's a way to take a photo when I find myself without a camera, connect to the internet if I really really have to and am not near a computer, and listen to mp3s or the radio when I'm waiting for something, somewhere, and bored out of my skull.
Funny how you can do without something until you start using it, and then have to do without it.
for the NNAF
2 comments:
I can't live without my computer and internet service, hot water, lots of lights at night and I do like my mind-numbing cable TV at the end of a long day.
I take or leave cell phones for now. But that could be because the one I have is horrible -- bought for emergencies only -- yet there are so many times when I don't get a signal for MILES, so what good is it?
I haven't bought a cell phone for the same reason that I haven't tried heroin. I've seen what they do to people.
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