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Cell Phone Separation Anxiety!

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:59 PM

OK now that I just hogged out on my lunch (yummy pasta leftovers from yesterday!) I am ready to blog for the day.

This morning after I dropped DH off at work, I reached to the backseat to grab my purse with my cell phone in it (yes i was at a traffic light, i wasn't doing this while driving!) Anyway, as I looked in the pocket I thought it was in, I couldn't find it. The light changed, and off i went without my phone... As I drove, i started thinking about where my phone could possibly be, if it had dropped, if i had forgotten it (which i distinctly remembered placing it in the pocket) and the panic started to rise in me... Now mind you, the panic wasn't, what if i get a flat, what if the car breaks down... no, the panic was that i wouldn't be accessible to my friends in the hour ride i have to and from work... who would i talk to, what if someone needed something, and worst of all, what if J has the baby... looking back now, i find this quite comical, as even if J has the baby today, my knowing when she sends the message or not really has no bearing on MY life... i mean of course happy for her as a friend, but its not like i'm going to visit her that minute...

All of this took me back to when cell phones barely existed... way back to 1995-ish... the year I got my very first cell phone. My parents got it for me for "emergency purposes only" since I had just gotten my license and now would be borrowing mom's car from time to time. Funny, the phone stayed in the glove box, had like 30 minutes a month on it, and was truly only used in emergencies, oh and to call her and tell her when i had arrived wherever i was going (yes, over protective but im sure i'll be the same way someday). Now here I was without my phone for... 14 minutes and i was already going into withdrawl!

After a few more minutes of driving and rationalizing that I will have access to the outside world once i got to work, i stopped at the next traffic light, promptly turned around searched the back seat and lo and behold there was my phone. All i can say is "reunited, and it feels so goooood" (i hope you guys sang that in your heads as you read it... LOL!) The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful, i was able to calm down, i hadn't missed any calls but I did call my girlfriend to chat a little as i finished my ride into work.

It's just crazy how much we depend on technology now-a-days. i think it will be interesting to see how the next generation is as technology evolves. 

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re: Cell Phone Separation Anxiety!

I completely understand how you feel. I only have a 5 minute commute to work, but one day I left my phone on the charger and I was long all day. I just kept going to check it for messages, and then I would be like, oh yeah, I forgot it this morning. I know almost no one calls me during the day, but it was still a long day. And yes, I did sing that line in my head. :-)

Posted by ermimac    Friday, April 11, 2008 12:57 PM


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Ok, I will tell you my though process as I was reading down your blog:

1) Eating lunch, isn't it early, oh my gosh, I need to take a lunch, I'm starving, Friday is flying by, Yay!!!!!!!!!

2) Oh, I reach into the backseat to grab my purse, phone, anything all the time, while the car is still in motion.  I guess I shoud not do that.  

3) I hate when I can't find it, I feel like Gilligan, stranded on a desert island without it.  

4) My Mom made me call her too, I totally get you there.

5) I miss my old Nokia, my first cell phone, I could spike it into concrete and drive over it, it would still be fine.  What craftmanship, unfortunately, it weighted a whole lb.

6) 14 minutes!?!? I would have already been forging a 2 way radio out of coconuts and double A batteries.  Wouldn't it be funny if I couldn't find my cell but had easily accessible double A batteries and coconuts in my car.

7)  I would pull over to the Shoulder and search the car.  I have done this a few times.

8) I sang it!

9) I can't text message, does that make me old?

Posted by MandyE-worth    Friday, April 11, 2008 1:02 PM


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I'm awful at text messaging, too!  I look like a grandma counting pennies!

I reflect on life before cell phones every now-and-again.  I think about how much better communication was then because we didn't have the convenience of, "Call me when you get here!"  (I'm not saying communication is necessarily bad now, but it's a whole different game these days.)

Posted by mrsdarling    Friday, April 11, 2008 2:19 PM


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OK, I am not mrsdarling...I'm Choensa...what's going on???

Posted by mrsdarling    Friday, April 11, 2008 2:21 PM


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Seriously.  I posted those comments.  Sorry to spam your wall!  I have no idea what TheNest is doing!  I'm not leading a double life....

Feel free to delete those two comments since that was mrsdarling.  @__@

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I'm awful at text messaging, too!  I look like a grandma counting pennies!

I reflect on life before cell phones every now-and-again.  I think about how much better communication was then because we didn't have the convenience of, "Call me when you get here!"  (I'm not saying communication is necessarily bad now, but it's a whole different game these days.)

Posted by Choensa    Friday, April 11, 2008 2:24 PM


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Maybe you are Mrsdarling and you don't know it?  Scary, Right?  Hehe, sorry...that is weird.

Posted by MandyE-worth    Friday, April 11, 2008 2:54 PM


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I actually appreciate leaving my cell phone at home sometimes.  I like that people can't reach me whenever they want to.

On a side note though, I didn't get my first cell phone until 2001 after Sept 11th and I was in my early-20s.  

Posted by edmo    Monday, April 14, 2008 11:23 AM


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Let's see... i hate trying to describe myself... yet alone in a "short sentence"... who can do that... i'm 29, happily married to a great guy, have 2 dogs, art director for a medical communications company. We're in the process of trying to sell our condo and move so DH can open his own business.


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