On becoming one myself.........
Following the invention of the mobile phone, I have managed to resist the temptation of carrying such device with me permanently, i.e. at home and in office, in restaurants, cinemas, cultural events and, not least, the sacred place where you really want to be alone....
I would always point my wife and children at these ridiculous individuals that would not only walk around with all sorts of funny 'spots' attached to their ears, but also those who would carry two mobile phones. Always wondered what was the purpose.
Then, with the advent of BlackBerries and similar devices with different brands came the what I would like to call ignominious 'MPE-MS' or simply Mobile Phone E-Mail Slavery.....
So, we now see people carrying not only two, but three devices in their hands !!
To make a long story short, as my driver politely dropped me off at my residence, I realized that I was also carrying three !! As a poor excuse, I tried to convince myself that I needed that because one has the SIM card from the country my family lives, the other with dual SIM for my country of residence and the additional for business trips, plus the BB in case something unexpected would require my attention at work..... Not good at all, oh no....
It occurred to me that someone should take the initiative and simply invent a device which would have a a 'beehive' kind of 'organ' inside that would be able to record telephone numbers which the users would input with details of all the cellular phone/data providers. This would minimize not only the number of devices one carries around, bur also the number of chargers, cables and other toys associated with each individual piece of equipment.
If anyone knows about the existence of such a device, do let me know but, please be sweet and send me the details in a TLC sort of way so that I could withstand the exhilaration without causing a hemorrhage of pleasure so sudden that it may affect my cardiovascular system !
Anyway, the only consolation I still have, and by the way still makes me look straight in the eyes of my mirror, is the fact that I do not turn on any device before, while and/or after landing on a plane......... This is simply because I am not as important as my usually 295 other traveling fellows.
But who knows..........
I would always point my wife and children at these ridiculous individuals that would not only walk around with all sorts of funny 'spots' attached to their ears, but also those who would carry two mobile phones. Always wondered what was the purpose.
Then, with the advent of BlackBerries and similar devices with different brands came the what I would like to call ignominious 'MPE-MS' or simply Mobile Phone E-Mail Slavery.....
So, we now see people carrying not only two, but three devices in their hands !!
To make a long story short, as my driver politely dropped me off at my residence, I realized that I was also carrying three !! As a poor excuse, I tried to convince myself that I needed that because one has the SIM card from the country my family lives, the other with dual SIM for my country of residence and the additional for business trips, plus the BB in case something unexpected would require my attention at work..... Not good at all, oh no....
It occurred to me that someone should take the initiative and simply invent a device which would have a a 'beehive' kind of 'organ' inside that would be able to record telephone numbers which the users would input with details of all the cellular phone/data providers. This would minimize not only the number of devices one carries around, bur also the number of chargers, cables and other toys associated with each individual piece of equipment.
If anyone knows about the existence of such a device, do let me know but, please be sweet and send me the details in a TLC sort of way so that I could withstand the exhilaration without causing a hemorrhage of pleasure so sudden that it may affect my cardiovascular system !
Anyway, the only consolation I still have, and by the way still makes me look straight in the eyes of my mirror, is the fact that I do not turn on any device before, while and/or after landing on a plane......... This is simply because I am not as important as my usually 295 other traveling fellows.
But who knows..........
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