What item can’t I do without? #MFRWauthor

I never thought I would ever say this, but I would have a hard time being without my cell phone. Damn it! I debated between the phone and the Kindle but the phone won out because while I can read books on my phone, I can’t place calls on my Kindle. So, if I’m ever stuck on a desert island and can only have one thing, it would have to be my iPhone. Oh, and a charger. And yeah, electricity because you know…

So the other day I mentioned to hubby how we lived for years in rural Virginia, 50 miles from Richmond and 35 miles from Charlottesville. We routinely drove in and out of both cities, on two-lane country roads, day and night, and never worried a bit. Within a year of having a cell phone and I nearly had hives when I realized I’d taken off from home one day and had forgotten my phone. I can’t remember a single time in years that I needed the stupid thing and suddenly it had become a technological device I was afraid to be without. Even now, when half of our town is within walking distance, I get antsy if I don’t have my phone.

And not just “a phone,” either. For years I smugly enjoyed the disbelief of my friends with smart phones when they realized I still had a flip top number that did nothing more than text and make calls. I avoided smart phones because I didn’t want to be more reliant on a device than I already was. Then hubby updated out phone contract and came home with iPhones. Now I have real addresses and email addresses in it, I read the news on it, I Google and read and yes, play Solitaire on it. I use the calendar and keep notes and set alarms. I have become attached. I hate it, but what’s a girl to do? The technological heart wants what the technological heart wants. Sigh.

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Dee
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