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There must be something wrong with me.<\/p>\n

I have this love\/hate relationship with a piece of electronic equipment. I hate the thing, but I cannot live without it.<\/p>\n

You know what I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s the cellphone that goes with me everywhere.<\/p>\n

I need to stipulate that I have one of those \u201cancient\u201d flip-top phones. No smartie-pants phone for me, at least not yet. My little gadget does what I need it to do: It makes phone calls; it receives them; it tells me when I miss a call; it gives me the phone number to call back \u2013 if I want to talk that person; it does receive text messages (and if I felt like learning how to send one of those messages back, I would, but I so far have resisted the temptation). <\/p>\n

When I take my cellphone out of my pocket, I receive strange looks from my younger friends and colleagues, and from family members who\u2019ve \u201cupdated\u201d their status to the smart phones, I-phones, the things that can tuck you in at night \u2013 after singing a lullaby. One friend looked at my Samsung and said, \u201cHey, that looks like my first cell phone.\u201d Then he laughed out loud, with the slightest hint of derision.<\/p>\n

Having declared my love\/hate relationship with this phone, I want to add one critical caveat. I will not, as one of my former colleagues once admitted, go back home to fetch it if I manage to leave it behind. My ex-colleague even admitted to me that he would leave his driver\u2019s license at home \u2013 but not his cellphone. \u201cSo,\u201d I asked my friend, Brad, \u201cyou would rather break the law <\/em>by driving without your driver\u2019s license in your possession than go through your day without your cellphone. Is that right?\u201d Brad said he would.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t go there, I told him. And do not even get me started<\/em> by mentioning those who drive their motor vehicles while blabbing on one of those devices.<\/p>\n

But I do find the phone increasingly indispensable to my daily routine \u2013 even though I hate it.<\/p>\n\n

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There must be something wrong with me. I have this love\/hate relationship with a piece of electronic equipment. I hate the thing, but I cannot live without it. You know what I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s the cellphone that goes with me everywhere. I need to stipulate that I have one of those \u201cancient\u201d flip-top phones. … Continue reading Love\/hate relationship drives me nuts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}