Technology Terror!

Remember the days of the telephone...no, not that cute little phone that is razor slim and fits in your pocket. I mean the one that hung on the kitchen wall, was a weird color, like blue or green or black, something hideous and undecorative and had a fifty foot cord that allowed you to walk around the house, a couple of times, get tangled in it and plop on the couch, all while talking to your friends? THAT PHONE.....I MISS IT!!

Today was a day of technology terror for me...my cell phone called someone -- yes, I said it, it called someone on its own, while closed and in my purse. If that wasn't bad enough, it recorded a message on that person's phone...OF ME SINGING TO MICHAEL JACKSON...cause I was alone in the car and that is what I do!! On top of that horror, when I realized it and tried to text the person an apology (cause goodness gracious, I didn't want to call anyone...please see my post from last week!!) the texting feature on my phone went crazy, sent me an old text and, although now, it is quite a funny story, at the moment it was not. Chaos ensued on my texting world in the produce aisle of the grocery store. I was wishing for a real phone at that point, not the crazy texting, email world we live in. My nerves, they were shot.

As the fun of my day continued, I met two girlfriends for dinner at the Red Robin (come on, you know you want to say it with me....REDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Robin!). I was telling my story of misplaced texts and we were all laughing at my craziness...ha ha ha!! We all agreed we missed that old phone in the kitchen too. As if on cue, in the middle of our talk, my friend Myra received a text from her daughter...she is thirteen, and I believe would have loved to have come out with us last night...sorry Rebecca, maybe next time though!! Anyway, she requested her mother take a picture of herself and send it to her...there's that modern technology creeping into our lives. Now, my friend Myra was thinking she is the queen of technology, in fact earlier in the evening she wanted to demonstrate texting to me! She decides to honor her child's request and pulls out her cell phone, shows me how to take a picture with it and we take a picture of her. She adds the line, "Just finished eating." to it and sends it to her daughter's cell phone...only WAIT...she typed in the wrong number and thus sent the picture of her self and the caption to a complete stranger!! Clearly, she and I and probably anyone of our friends over forty should not be allowed to have a cell phone with options. Great time of day, coming on the heels of my crazy day, that was the funniest thing ever. We laughed about it all night. Oh, and I received a note from her this morning that around midnight "the stranger" sent her a text asking who she was and where she ate!" Oh...it is so funny, I hurt from the laughter!!

Moral of this story is quite simple, I will not be using my text messaging function for quite awhile, and if you get a call from me, and there is some kind of singing going on...please hang up immediately...my cell phone is quite possibly possessed.

I am going to start searching the antique stores for one of those old timey kitchen phones and revert back to carry a quarter in my shoe for those "away from home" emergencies!!

Living Happily In The Moment!
Bev