Last night, my Verizon 650 Treo flung from my hands onto the pavement.
I soon learned that dropping my Treo was like dropping a mini computer. Once on, it did nothing when I pressed the keypad. It was a mute, dead phone with a glowing screen. The life support was on, but it was nothing but a vegetable.
And because the touchscreen was locked for safety (way to think ahead Sammy, and then screw yourself over in situations like these), I couldn’t use the pen tool to make calls from the screen.
There goes my $130 ghetto Ebay purchase. I bought the phone primarily for Internet, but also (and I’m just admitting this to myself now) to look cool.
Like, “Yeah, I’m a big deal. Look at my Treo. I’m so important I need this huge brick in my bag and hands at all times. I can type a text message to you faster than you can even THINK.”
It’s true.
I didn’t have a working phone for exactly 12 hours. And it bothered me so much, that in honor of not having a phone for 12 hours, I’d like to give up my cell phone for a week.
Except I can’t. But if I could, the benefits would include…
1.) No longer will I get the annoying, “So, meet you at 2PM?” texts. We’ll just meet, no confirmations asked.
2.) People (including me) will be on time. Without cell phones, we can never be late. There is so “padding” to be late by making a quick phone call to say, “I’ll be ten minutes late.”
3.) If someone is late to your meeting, you read. That is why no one reads anymore. They are just on their cell phone texting, “See you in 10.”
4.) I will lose the art of simultaneously driving with one hand, looking at the road and using one finger to text why undisclosed-name boy A pissed me off last night to Erin E. And then, a minute later while not stopped at a red light, reading her message while not looking at the road. So safe.
5.) The days of random text messages will be no more. Met a guy named “Jim Bar” last year, and out of the blue “Jim Bar” shoots you a text, “Hey, what’s up?” How do you respond to “Jim Bar?” You don’t. Because before texting, this was never a worry.
6.) We will spend more time at home with family and close friends. Without cell phones, we would need a central hub (the home with a landline) for communication purposes. Cell phones, and also wireless Internet, have enabled us to be our own traveling homes. Home, schmoom. I’ll live in a tin can with Oscar the Grouch, so long as I had my Treo with Internet.
7.) Just when the adults thought “freakin’” was bad slang, text lingo developed and took over our everyday vernacular. Now we communicate in text letter grunts. O-M-G, B-T-W, F-Y-I. I don’t say any more, or any less.
8.) Missed calls. We won’t know they exist. Everyone has to leave a voicemail for a call back. The return of dial and hang up? Sweeeet.
9.) Two words: Carrot Top. His AT&T commercials were so annoying. Remember the one on the double decker bus? Was he on speed or something? O-M-G, 10 cnts/min!
10.) Just like Polaroid Film, pay phones are a dying breed. And so sexy for making out in. I would love to dial a 1-800 number again. Oh, the memories. [emo sigh]
*posted by Sammy D
