Cellphones are the devil’s spawn!
I love my cellphone, don’t get me wrong! My cellphone and I are seldom parted.
Information about anything I can think of is at hand within seconds and my music is available to keep me company at work or while shopping, especially at Christmas time.
What I loathe most about my cellphone is the expectation that I have to answer it when it rings.
Regardless of where I am or what I’m doing!
To make matters worse we have SMSes, email and Facebook amongst other things to deal with.
There is no escape!
For instance…
I’m currently on leave. My job is not an essential service. I’m not a nuclear physicist or brain surgeon. I’m not even an Eskom worker.
But Monday, my first day of leave, I woke up at 10am to an email from work.
I first had a long bubble bath before opening the email. As expected the request wasn’t about creating world peace nor defusing a nuclear bomb.
It was so insignificant I asked my colleague to not contact me again unless absolutely necessary.
Tuesday afternoon after a relaxing morning, I picked up my phone only to find a collection of SMSes, emails, phone calls and even Facebook messages – from the office.
Hello…WTF?
I fumed, ranted and then asked them to call me.
My colleague actually laughed! And said she told them I wouldn’t answer my phone.
As if I wasn’t already pissed off.
The expectation was that while on leave I would be waiting for them to call me?
If only that was the end of it.
They called again on Thursday. Told me to keep my phone on in case they needed me.
Fortunately for them they didn’t because I kept my phone on silent and took a nap instead.
Thats not all…
Friday I checked my phone only to discover missed calls and an SMS from my family…
My cellphone is driving me crazy.
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