Thoughts on Switching Phones by Charles Charlington III
I had a flip-phone, now I have a smart-phone. How smart? Smart enough to make end of life decisions for me? I don’t want it to come to that.
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Suddenly, I have to log in to my phone to use it… which will put a real damper on my drunk-dialing…
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I don’t know the standard procedure: Do I tell the smart -phone that I also use a desktop computer or do I wait until it walks in on us. The last thing I need is a jealous phone.
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Now, I can use apps like Lyft and Uber whenever I have a need for an unlicensed taxi with an amateur driver…
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My smart-phone always knows where I am. I’m worried it might turn me in to the feds and then make end of life decisions for me.
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Now, can check the current weather while I’m standing out in it. I need that kind of validation.
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I had to get a new charger for this phone; but, I never get rid of the old chargers so my outlets look like that killer robot octopus from the Matrix movies.
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Can a smart-phone hold you when you are sad and take care of you when you are sick. If the answer is “no”, I regret breaking up with my girlfriend right after buying it.
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Now, no matter where I am, I have an entire world of misinformation at my fingertips.
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With a smart-phone, I can just say what I want to do and the phone will do it. Sadly, this will cause me to abandon my trademark catchphrase, “Email a photograph of my buttocks to my mom”. My new catchphrase? “NOW you tell me!”
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
Smart phones make me feel incredibly dumb … then I turn them on
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They are SO conceited, Deb…
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Yeah, and that Alexa cow is such a ….
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I’m going to use her in my writing. I’ll ask and she’ll answer, “I found three jokes about cesium, two of them are funny”
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Log ins are problematic for drunk dialing sure, but it makes butt dialing virtually impossible and that’s a shame…
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Yeah, now my butt has to ask permission to call its friends…
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And that’s just sad.
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And yet it still happens.
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One of life’s greatest mysteries…
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Now you know why my phone mounts on the wall and I have to turn a crank to get power to it before I ask Mabel to connect me to Charlie. (And thanks for the shout-out to Uber and Lyft from a former licensed and professional cab driver. “Ride-sharing” my ass.)
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I feel so much better with an actual cab driver…
I liked my flip phone, but it died and my boys wanted me to stop getting lost so much.
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I’m too old-to own a smart phone.. If I needed one, I’ve have been born after after the time when most people were smart enough to think for themselves, instead of letting Trump do their thinking for them. If you ask me (and even if you don’t), maybe MAGA phones might be a more telling name for them than smart phones.
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My boys had an intervention right after I got lost in Missouri/Oklahoma one night. They told me I HAVE to get a phone. But, I didn’t do it until my flipphone died after a decade of service.
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