Lost my iPhone…
Yesterday, I walked out of Jai Thai after lunch, and chatted with a friend outside for a minute before realizing I left my iPhone at the table. I walked back in to get it, but our table had already been re-seated, and sadly neither the waiter nor the new diners seemed to have any idea what I was talking about. I even tried calling it from the restaurant phone, but it had been turned off, and went straight to voicemail. I checked back in with the restaurant a few hours later, but apparently the phone vanished into thin air. Huge bummer.
Because I’m expecting an important call any day now (a.k.a “Daryn, it’s baby-time! Thundercats are go!!!!”), yet don’t want to buy another iPhone until the new release, I headed over to the T-mobile store and punished myself with the cheapest non-contract phone I could find: the Motorola Renew. On the plus-side, the phone is made out of recycled plastic, and is “carbon-neutral”. On the minus-side: this thing is bare-bones! No camera, no qwerty keyboard, no email, no browser, its only function is the one feature I use least: making phone calls.
I’ve had a smartphone of some sort for the past 9+ years. A Treo, a crazy beast of a Kyocera/PalmOS device, a WinMo phone, several blackberrys, and, of course, the iPhone. It’s been interesting seeing how “the other half lives” (or as a co-worker put it, the other 95%), and it’s definitely making me aware of how much I rely on having the world at my fingertips. I’m not sure I’ll make it, but Brooke challenged me to try, so I’m going to give it a few days until 1. I crack, 2. I find one of my old phones, or 3. someone has pity and lends me something better.
I bet a lot of you have normal phones, and are shaking your heads at my ridiculousness, but those of you with the same information addition that I have: you understand, don’t you?!?
