I got a smart phone recently, a blackberry, and I must confess that I am in the throes of obsession, updating my theme, my wallpaper, downloading different ringtones, applications, reading every thing there is to know about it, and keeping myself from licking the screen obsessively.
I have the bad habit of placing my cellphone on my lap while I drive so that I can easily answer it when it rings (illegal yes, but who doesn't talk on the cellphone and drive at the same time?). While I was driving yesterday I stopped the car to get a towel from the back seat, as the windows were fogging up (I was driving my mom's very old car). I stepped out of the car grabbed the towel, hopped back in and sped off into the city. In the area of El Dorado I look for my phone to call my friend to let her know I was close by, when I realize that I cannot find my phone; I frantically search the passenger seat while I am driving, fumbling blindly for the rubberized outer shell, or the smooth screen, but my fingers find nothing. I grab my old cellphone and dial the new cellphone's number and I hear nothing; no ring tone, no vibrations, zilch. It dawns on me that my cellphone might have fallen off my lap and into the ground. This is not the first time it happens, but when I did drop my cellphone any old place (like the street, or the sidewalk), it was a cheap cellphone that I didn't mind losing.
I turned the car around and sped back to the scene of the crime, holding myself together and chanting, 'let it be there, let it be there, let it be there, please it let it be there'. As I turned the corner to the area where I had stopped the car I couldn't see a thing, it was empty, but then I saw my phone a couple of feet from where I had stopped, impeccable and alone in a big empty street.
