#NerdsUnite: Losing your life support- the tale of a habitual phone loser & hoarder
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 2:00PM<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Jennifer. She's a muse for hire and social media writer and consultant that is passionate about comic books and video games. Um, hello? Nerd-goddess? Is that you? This chick is the shizzy shiznat, and she has a lot of adventures. So, like, go follow 'em! </editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @scandalous
Remember back in the day when Zach from Saved by the Bell pulled out that huge brick and started talking on his cell phone and everyone just swooned? (I mean where did he manage to put that thing anyway? Wink wink nudge nudge)
Nowadays a phone isn't just a luxury or a toy carried by fancy cats with big hair. It's more uncommon for someone to NOT have a phone than to have one. So uncommon that I can probably count the amount of friends (including myself) who have phone numbers memorized. This is not good. It's really not good.
Enter the habitual phone loser and hoarder. Yep that's me. I don't know what it is about my phone, and one year it even was my purse too An embarrassing fact to admit: on average, my phone has either been lost or stolen once or twice a year. It's... not a pretty tale for my pocketbook.
Last weekend was yet another adventure in that realm. Joy.
My son and I decided to go to a thrift store and were playing around. My oldest son lives with my dad in the suburbs. He has the opportunity to go to better schools there as I am currently living and working downtown.
Going to a thrift store with me is a guaranteed adventure in sillytown. Add little mini me to the mix and you can kind of get the idea.
We were looking for things that his little sister and brother would enjoy. They live with their dad which is another story. We saw a rejected toy from Playfish with a strangely placed plastic hole in it. I have no idea what it was for but my son had an idea as he started to pull the plush back over it.
"What are you doing?"
"Mom he needs to hide his pee pee."
I took my cell phone out and started filming him. I put it back into my pocket and we continued to walk around.
Afterwards we saw a plastic slide.
"Ethan go slide down the slide!"
"No Mom."
"Ethan it's a SLIDE. You're a kid. Now go over there and have fun."
He remained put and crossed his arms.
"Fine. I'm going to do it then." I said as I gave him my cell phone.
Ethan watched me as I walked over to the slide.
"Man I really hope my big butt can fit on here."
Two other kids were watching us at this point. They were laughing.
My son had my phone and insisted that he film it too. I looked at the Nintendo 64 controller in his hand and had an idea.
"Ethan either you get on that slide and start acting like a kid already or I'm not going to get you that controller."
Begrudgingly he got up on the slide.
"Start having fun already!"
He laughed. My hero and I have such a great time together. So much of a good time that things got carried away. Like... literally... because that's one of the last things that I remember. Because as I was going to look at something I must have put my cell phone down. And the next minute, it was gone. Really gone. Like, looked all over and still couldn't find it gone.
I had a spare cell phone at home. And, I'm not going to even lie, there were some pictures on it that I probably wouldn't have been too keep with everyone seeing but that really didn't bother me. What bothered me the most were the Christmas pictures I'd taken of Ethan that I hadn't posted or sent to family... and these 2 videos.
So now what? Now I get to deal with the joy of yet another cell phone disappearing. Of having to learn a whole other format of OS. Of having to change a myriad of passwords. Of losing an abundance of text messages from relationships past. Of losing... memories. All because I.. couldn't remember how it happened in the first place.
How many people here can actually say they remember five friend's phone numbers without looking at their cell phones? How long could you last without having your cell phone? How would YOU react if you lost your smartphone and all of the content you've done over the past 6 months?
#thatisall
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