I guess a universal gadget is the way to go but one has to understand that I am not the most gadget-savvy individuals around. I do well to turn the television on, let along try to figure out how to make everything work with one remote. And so the routine is pretty much the same common thing everytime I decide to lay across our bed or to kick back in the recliner to watch a little bit of television.
I get all of my gadgets and I lay them out around me in order to have them all handy just in case. I take my cellphone out of my pocket and lay it closeby, but also have to get the cordless house phone as well, just in case someone should decide to call me at home rather than send me a text on my cell. So, with my two phones close by for convenience sake, I get the television remote in order to turn on the TV and to mute it during the commercials, then I have to have the satellite remote with which I change all the channels and check the channel guides. I don’t have a Kendel (Sp?) or an Ipad. I don’t have a smart phone because I am personally intimidated by a gadget that is quicker and smarter than myself. I don’t know how to download music onto my phone and I have opted not to have the Internet on my cell because I don’t want to have to be answering e-mails and facebook posts on my cell while I’m trying to drive or function.
Some things are embarrasing enough, like getting a call on my cell from a friend the other day.I’m sure the echo in the room had to be a pretty good hint that I wasn’t in the most convenient location to be having a phone conversation.
“Where are you?” he asked.
“I’m in Southern Virginia,” I said …. “in a restroom” …. “a public restroom, where other people are coming and going and thinking there’s a strange guy in one of the stalls talking to himself, so can I please call you back at a more convenient time?”
I mean, come on folks. With all of the gadgets available, there really is no privacy anymore – anywhere. And I can’t multi-task like young people can these days. I can’t watch television, text on my cell, talk on the landline while I’m wearing headphones listening to music on my Ipad, and reading a book on the Kendel I don’t have.
I personally think we have gone gadget crazy, so much so, that I’m almost afraid to ride down the road because the guy coming at me at 65 mph is most likely listening to his Bose Stereo system while he’s paying attention to his GPS, talking on one phone, texting with another and coming his hair and shaving with is electric shaver that cuts three times closer than the one he bought just two days ago.
I have a brilliant idea. How about we put down the gadgets, meet someone over coffee at a place we know so we don’t have to use the OnStar, and have a face-to-face conversation with someone. What a novel idea. Wonder why no one has thought of that before?
Probably because our Smartphone never suggested it.
