Attachment
I get attached to things - a comfy sweatshirt 4 sizes too big, my pink mechanical pencil that is falling apart, my 2008 calendar with the pretty pictures, and my Blackberry.
My phone is perfect.
- It’s red. (I mean, the way it looks IS the most important part of it.)
- It allows me to text quickly.
- I can use the internet on it.
- The screen background looks great with the red color (see the 1st item about how the looks are the most important). My brother thinks it is hilarious that I took a close-up of the fabric on my couch for my background, but I liked the color combinations.
- It allows me to actually make phone calls from inside my house. Yeah, don’t ask me how long I had a phone that didn’t work inside my house. I got many a bug bite sitting outside talking on my previous phone.
And today, I gave up my phone. Don’t worry, I’m getting another one in return. But my head keeps spinning ’round and ’round wondering if I did the right thing. My phone company was acquired by another company, so I need a new phone with a Verizon chip in it. Verizon advertises about “my people”, but ”my people” seem to be on strike some days. They must not like small towns. Hopefully, the new phone will make them go back to work.
So I am a little blue. But thinking back to the day I got my Blackberry, I was a little nervous about it too. I wasn’t sure if we would become fast friends or sworn enemies. I feel like I have given up my 1st born. I guess that makes my new Droid, the 2nd born. Hey, maybe it won’t be too bad because everyone knows that the 2nd child is definitely the best!
They say that the Droid can do so many great things. Hopefully, it will be like Auntie Mame says, “I shall open doors for you. Doors you never dreamed existed.” And maybe one day, you will hear me say that I am completely and utterly attached to my new phone. Here’s hoping.
I understand the attachment thing.. i had to get rid of the pink robe…much pressure was put on me from my significant other. It was time for it to move on…i am getting along ok. My new one is not near as cozy though.
1. I am jealous of your red blackberry
May your new phone think it is the first and not feel the need to out do it’s older sibling.
2. As a mother of two I need to let you in on a secret (varied by other mothers of two)…the second child has more hutzpha, audacity, tricks up their sleeves and tends to stir things up more than the first. I hope this is not the case with your new phone.
xoxo
Let me know how you like the Droid! When my contract is up, I am definitely getting a smart phone of some kind…being at Becky’s for 3 days without internet access (they took their laptop to the hospital with them) was the pits. I felt like I’d fallen off the world, and didn’t have a clue what was going on anywhere with anybody! No email. No Facebook. No Twitter. Total bummer!
If I could upgrade right now, I would probably go with the *purple* B-berry
I literally HATED the Storm (touch screen was awful), turned it in after one day, and got the LG EnV Touch. Great phone, but not for internet/email. Can’t wait till I can upgrade!
I’m the 2nd child…don’t know that I stir up more trouble, I have always been the “rules are to be followed” child. But the older I get, the more I break out of that shell. Both of my sisters claim the “quirky” gene too, but I think I am the quirkiest. My brother just thinks we are all crazy!
On the Droid, I still don’t know how to use it. Each day I learn a little more about it and am starting to like it. But it is an ugly black rectangle and I keep hearing bad things about the covers (which would personalize it a little more). So for now, I don’t like the way it looks, but do like the functions.
Cheryl - next time we have lunch you can check out my phone while you update me on the new baby!
Kate, lunch sounds good! Looking forward to seeing your phone! And you will have to look at MY phone, too…b/c I have baby pics on it, of course!