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Someone help me! I need an intervention!<\/p>\n

This morning I drove the store to pick up a few items, and while I was walking across the parking lot for the front door, I reached for the place where I keep my cell phone on my belt.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t there!<\/em><\/p>\n

I froze for an instant. Then I remembered: “D’oh! It’s on the charger at my desk at home.”<\/p>\n

So help me, I breathed an ever-so-imperceptible sigh of relief realizing that I knew where the gadget was at that moment.<\/p>\n

Does this mean I’m officially a 21st-century guy? Does this mean I’ve become officially addicted to the damn device that drives me insane, but which I might be unable to function without?<\/p>\n

I’ve written of this device before. I won’t plow old ground here.<\/p>\n

My sons needle me constantly about my aversion to this technology. One of them posted something on Facebook recently posing a rhetorical question about whether his mother and I use still use a VCR recorder at home; he knew the answer — which is “yes.”<\/p>\n

I’m not totally frightened of technology. Indeed, I’ve been through a lot of technological changes throughout my professional life. I started writing for newspapers in the mid-1970s using a manual typewriter and marking up text with blue pencils and Scotch-taping pieces of paper together. It’s a whole lot different now, but I managed to learn to adapt along the way.<\/p>\n

Cell phone technology also is growing rapidly.<\/p>\n

My first such phone was a tiny flip-top thing that drove me nuts. My wife had the same issue. We cursed the things constantly.<\/p>\n

We’ve “graduated” to smart phones. I’ll concede that I don’t use all the “apps” that come with it — but I’m getting a bit more acquainted with them a little at a time.<\/p>\n

I still detest cell phones. However, I realized today I cannot live without it.<\/p>\n

Heaven help me!<\/p>\n\n

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