{"id":2964,"date":"2020-10-15T21:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2020-10-14T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:12:06","slug":"how-did-i-get-so-attached-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/15\/how-did-i-get-so-attached-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I get so attached?? #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UsingWhen Jack and I lived in a small town in Virginia, we routinely drove in and out of Richmond and Charlottesville (50 miles and 35 miles respectively) for grocery shopping, plays, dinner, work, etc. and never gave a thought that we were driving those distances on two-lane country roads WITHOUT A DARN CELL PHONE. In fact, there weren\u2019t any cell phones back then. Sure, the thought of breaking down crossed my mind, but houses weren\u2019t spaced out too far, and I just figured I\u2019d walk to one of them and call for help. Now that I have a cell phone? I can\u2019t drive half a mile from home without panicking if I discover I\u2019ve forgotten the phone. I\u2019ve turned into a phone wuss, and I\u2019m not proud of it.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, I had a flip phone, long after \"Gogglingsmart phones were out. \u201cYou have the oldest phone of anyone I know,\u201d a friend once told me. I smacked the lid down on the screen and said, \u201cI use my phone for making calls. I don\u2019t need all that stuff that comes on smart phones.\u201d Sigh. Or for the naivete! Of course, as soon as I got a smart phone I set up weather, Google, a news app, and Solitaire. I am picking the phone up a hundred times a day to do something on it that doesn\u2019t involve making a call.<\/p>\n

I am happy to say that I don\u2019t keep my phone with<\/p>\n

me all the time. I\u2019m not stuck to it. But every time I\u2019m in one room and an alarm goes off or I receive a call on the phone in a different room, I curse the fact that I don\u2019t have it stuck to me. My, how the mighty have fallen.<\/p>\n

What about you? Are you a slave to your phone?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a><\/p>\n

Burning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist
\nOne Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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