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Being attached to your cell phone

It’s 8:55am as I type this, and I’ve been at work for about 20 minutes.

I left my cell phone in my car.

And it’s driving me crazy.

I would just go down to get it, but it’s a bit of a walk to where I parked.  That, and I’m curious to see how long I’m willing to go before giving in.  My goal is to make it to lunch, when I’d be walking around anyway, but we’ll see.  I’m going to have trouble making lunch plans without the phone, so it could go either way.

Every minute or so, I notice something feels off.  I feel around in my pants (no, not like that) and think to myself, “Something’s missing!” (no, not like that!)  I then realize it’s my phone, remember that I left it in my car, and get back to adjusting my hair, messing with a whisker I missed while shaving, or whatever other fidgety thing I’m doing.  A minute will pass, and we’ll repeat the process.

I’m about a block away from my phone — which is as far from my phone as I’ve been in a while.  I wonder if it misses me as much as I miss it.

I keep wondering, am I missing text messages?  Phone calls?  No one calls me this early, but maybe today is the day someone does.  It’s lonely without my phone.

You can probably tell that this isn’t the most well-formed or coherent of posts.  This is because:

1) It’s early. 2) I’m distracted by not having my cell phone.

It’s amazing how attached you can become to technology.  If someone had told me 10 years ago I’d have a phone that was my personal secretary — taking messages, keeping my schedule, keeping my to-do lists — that I would be lost without, I’d have called them crazy.

Wed April 11th, 2007 9:43 am

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