A hypothetical question from your friend the dumbass
Do you think it's possible for a techno-savvy citizen of the information age to live without phone contact for a week?
Let's say for a moment that you knew someone who had taken a little jaunt up to her parents' house this past weekend to celebrate a certain baby sister's 21st birthday. Upon returning home she was too busy researching her cataloging paper (or something) that she didn't even think to check her phone until 3pm (ish) only to discover its absence! Now, keep in mind that this friend has already driven back and forth to her parents' house twice this weekend (bizarre circumstances), and the thought of doing so again tonight is absolutely repugnant to her. She knows she has to return to her parents' house on Sunday and she's contemplating just waiting until then to fetch the phone.
In the meantime, she can refamiliarize herself with the following forms of communication:
GoogleChat
AIM
Email
Face-to-face conversation
Smoke Signals
Morse code
The United States Postal Service
...it's too bad Western Union doesn't send telegrams anymore
What do you think? Is this a ridiculous notion? Should she just get in the car right now and drive until she can drive no more? If she is, in fact, phoneless for a week, will her friends choose a new happy hour destination just to freak her out?
9 comments:
Well, I have never owned a cellphone in the US, so I think it is possible to get by.
Do you not have a regular phone in your apartment? Do you have access to a phone at either of your jobs in case you had to schedule an appointment or something?
We try to ditch you at HH every week so I suspect your phoneless self will still be able to track us down. (Sigh).
I think you can go a week, maybe longer. Heck, I mostly use my phone for fake calls so the panhandlers don't bother me when I'm walking to school.
Can you change your voicemail long distance? You should change your outgoing message and ask that callers email you instead.
Do the rural parts of this state lack the USPS or FedEx? If not, why can't someone from home mail the phone to you? It would get here in 2 days, tops.
Although until recently we have relied on the pony express, we do now have access to such newfangled things as package delivery services. Unfortunately, my parents are out of town as of this morning, so there's no one at home to send it. (Thanks for the suggestion though.) I'm trying to figure out the long distance voicemail thing as we speak. Unfortunately, I have no landline, but they seem pretty cool with making local calls from work.
Deborah, if you successfully ditched me, who would you laugh at for making an idiot of herself?
Oh my lord, I'm not the only one to use my cell phone for fake calls. Thank goodness.
Other than that, I say screw the phone. Be inventive and don't worry, I'll totally stalk you so we can hang out--still up for falafel?. Oh and Kenny Chesney or no Kenny Chesney, BBQ Crotch or no BBQ Crotch, I will stay at the Vintage.
Going phoneless for a while is liberating. I recently left my charger at my mom's house, a dead phone is effectively no phone.
I am also in favor of a return trip to the land of $2 tacos. I might even be able to drag the spouse along if there is no baseball on tellyvision Thursday evening!
BBQ Crotch? Do I have holes in my memory?
As I have yet to experience a Vintage Happy Hour, I will definitely be there.
I just ran into Jorge and as he will be leaving soon, we decided Thursday should be his last big librarian bash, so spread the word!
Better to have a hole in your memory than a BBQ in your crotch. That's always been my motto!
Best motto ever! Why didn't I think of that? That is totally pub crawl t-shirt material!
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