The parents just don't get it.
I cannot live without my not so smart phone.
We had a deep conversation the other night on the drive to the casino (1.5 hrs away) about when they were in their teens, rotatary dial phones, rabbit ears.
I felt like I was riding with the fucking Flintstones.
I love me some technology.
I remember when I was a teenager, the land line rang 24/7 for my sister and me, my parents finally got tired of those 3am phone calls. They caved and had our own seperate land line installed in mine and my sister's room. My sister would never turn the flippin ringer off on her phone to keep the parents from getting pissed.
As I rode with the Flinstones the other night, I had to add my 2 cents.
"I can get updates on everything. I can tell you what time so and so took a shit from their Facebook, I can get international news in real time, I can chat with friends down south, take pictures, check my blog stats, and download porn all while using the phone to actually talk to somebody."
My parents barely know their way around a computer and it's always the same ole thing...."oh you kids and those damn phones, you're always on them!"
When my phone can do more than a desktop computer, well that was like them going from rotatary dial to pushbutton phones, black/white tv to color....of course the thing never leaves my side. Not even when I take a dump.
I'd take drug/alcohol withdraws over smart phone withdraws anyday of the week. It's become such an integral part of my life that now I cant live without it.
And the battery life on these phones is a couple hours at best. My dad rubs it in one day "I haven't charged my phone in almost 2 weeks and it just went dead."
"We'll I've downloaded gigabytes of bullshit, probably used every roll over minute you've ever accumulated just in the past 2 weeks, and I can double or triple that and have the same bill every month!"
Everytime the phone beeps or chimes I gotta look. If it doesn't I gotta look.
Some baby boomers just cant figure out us Gen-X'ers.
Sad I know, but I know I'm not the only one whose like this!
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I have no idea of what you speak. Oh, hold on, my phone just went "beep".
ReplyDeleteSo tell us about those friends down South ;-)
ReplyDeleteWould it be funny if I told you that I am more in-line with your parents? I haven't figured out half the stuff on my Android yet, despite owning it for over a month.
I know lots of hot women in the south, well east of the Mississippi I should say.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what wireless carrier you have but the Android platforms are the same across the boards. Definitely gives the Iphone a run for its money.
Check out this link...
http://www.android.com/market/#app=com.fourtechnologies.mynetdiary.ad
Are you trying to tell me something with that link?
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