Giddy Upscaled iPhone
As we all know, smartphones are a convenient way to stay connected, responsible and efficient, but they can also disconnect us when around others, make us less responsible on the road and less efficient throughout the day. iPhone? More like iScrollaimlessly.
Recently, Rogers experienced a nationwide outage that impacted millions of cellular networks, internet connectivity and Interac debit card transactions. Rogers customers were unable to call 9-1-1, cover shifts for healthcare workers and pay for their beer at Calgary Stampede.
When situations like this occur, we realize how dependent we are on our cellphones and how little we know.
Knowledge (or lack there of) is at our finger tips. We can search anything from historical events, recipes, how to videos, news and JLo/Ben’s wedding pictures.
With a click of a button, we turn into Amy Schneider.
Gone are the days of remembering phone numbers, addresses or emails. Or directions, 4×4, how to spell or even how to respectfully date.
As the great Trevor Noah said in his stand up, “do you remember what it was like to remember?”
I don’t even remember my initial reason for opening my laptop, but here we are.
All in all, there are upsides and downsides to having a cellphone and same goes for not having one…
In Morning Coffee Fuel, I had a run in with a vehicle. Today, I had a run in with a pick pocketer.
Ask any of my coworkers and they will tell you that I am a firm believer in taking vacation time. Extend the weekend; break up the week; take the trip; binge watch Love Island for a week straight.
This may result in being a bit behind at work, but at least you’ll be behind and happy.
Therefore, about a month ago, five childhood friends and I went to Nashville. I’m not much of a country music fan, but I am a cowboys’ butts fan.
On the first night, we decided to have a nice sit down dinner together before the weekend of possible chaos. On our way to the restaurant I realized I had forgotten my iPhone at the Airbnb. At first I told myself I didn’t need it, but who was I kidding?
I felt naked and it wasn’t because I was wearing a short dress.
So when we arrived at the restaurant, my friend offered to catch a cab back to the condo with me to grab my phone and wipe the pouty look off my face.
Once we returned to the restaurant, the friend who had come back to the condo with me suddenly realized she didn’t have her phone. She sprinted to the front of the building and found the cab driver waving her iPhone out of the window.
In her own words, “I have a horseshoe up my ass.”
As the evening grew later and the drinks grew stronger, we mosied (or swayed) to Broadway to check out the bar scene.
We ended up at the four story Honky Tonks bar where the floor and people were sticky (Nashville is not the place to contemplate wearing deodorant).
A couple hours later, after I paid for my drink, I went to put my wallet back into my purse to find a phone-less purse. My friend instantly helped me look for it and we even traced our steps back to the washroom – where we were almost kicked out of the bar for budging the line. (Girls who have to pee are worse than girls who are hungry).
I knew my phone was long gone. Maybe even to Saskatchewan.
The next morning, one of the girls graciously hopped in an Uber with me to stop in at Honky Tonks to see if any iPhones happened to be turned in the night before. We spoke with two separate security guards who practically laughed at such an inquiry.
Ironically, the Apple store was located right on Broadway. A coincidence? I think genius.
After a quick sales pitch and a shaky credit card tap, I had a new iPhone that wasn’t of much use until I was back on Canadian soil.
A few weeks later as I was holding my phone (since I no longer trusted purses), I received a message from Apple informing me that my phone had been located…in Moscow, Russia.
Apparently, cell phones can even connect us to Putin… I’ll let you decide if that’s an upside or downside.
