iPhones

For the older phone users among you...

When you were growing up, did you ever think they'd make a phone that needed a book to tell you how to use it?

(Note: I think I'd need this book to figure out this phone!)

For the younger phone users...

When I was little, phones looked like this...



Okay, so I am a little younger than that phone. But I did grow up in a town that still had "party lines".

I am old enough that I haven't bought into the cell phone craze. I can't imagine spending nearly $600 just for the iPhone and then spending hours goofing around on it. I'm too cheap and I can waste my time on-line perfectly easily without a phone to help me.

This woman at work bought an iPhone this month and one day she wanted to show us this video on youTube she'd saved. She wandered out halfway through break with the video ready to play but this young kid we work with lost it before it started.

Another man we work with said, "I heard the iPhone is slow."

We sat there and watched our friend spend the next seven minutes not finding the video again.

As I was leaving the breakroom I told the man, "I'm not sure if iPhones are slow, but ... operating it sure seems to be."

The new owner undoubtedly swatted me upside the head. It's actually pretty fun to sit around and watch youTube during breaks now. But I am still too cheap to buy my own.