Welcome to Week 42 of the MFRW 52-week challenge. The topic is "Cell Phones: Necessary or wanted, or stuck to you like glue."
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There are people who cannot exist without their cell phone permanently attached at their ear. They answer every ring regardless of where they are or what is going on around them. To some, their phone and its instant contact amounts to an addiction.
My flip phone enables medical updates to be made to the family from a hospital room, hotel reservations made from the road, or a summons for help. Or before times of lockdown and safer at home isolation orders, the phone let the partner know when dinner is ready and it's time to come home. Or that I'm done shopping and will bring lunch (or dinner) back with me.
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I've seen the telephone go from black rotary devices on a party line to internet-accessing, picture-taking, mini-computers. My flip phone is a necessity and useful at times. But it is not attached to me 24/7.
~till next time, Helen
Cool You have a flip-phone too? Must be our age--though my husband, who got his first smart phone maybe 5 years ago, told me that he was NEVER going to turn into one of our kids--who are endlessly scrolling stuff, playing games with each other, and doing their Fantasy Football league on them. I don't do any of those things. Now husband does too--traitor! I point it out to him, laughing, telling him he's such a millennial!
ReplyDeleteI carry crossword books into doctor's office appointments. If I have to wait, I have something to do--that doesn't involve my phone!