The Call of the Mild
Jan, 18, 2012
If you’ve been to a show lately you’ve probably heard me say, “I love my Iphone because it does everything! In fact, I was just backstage using the Deodorant APP.” I like this joke because normally half the crowd laughs and the other half goes “Does it really do that?” Yes, it does. So, I use my Iphone for everything except actually making calls. The main reason is that I have AT&T and therefore never have service. AT&T has a very strong signal as long as you aren’t more than 3 feet from the cell phone tower. Then your bars drop faster than the stock market after an Enron announcement.
This also affects texting which is unfortunate because everyone is texting now. In fact, I bet there’s at-least 10 people reading this now who are also texting. You know who you are. You know….Years ago people didn’t get cramps in their thumbs. I’m just saying.
But texting is here to stay. In fact, when babies are born in the hospital, the doctor now slaps their bottom and hands them a copy of their texting plan. Of course, not everyone has caught the texting bug. The list of non texters looks like this:
1. The Amish.
2. Me.
I never texted that much anyway…mostly because I dont drive very much which is evidently when you are supposed to text. I wonder if that’s part of the driver’s license test nowadays?
Driver Instructor: “You did a great job on your parallel parking but I noticed you went 8 miles before you started texting. You’ll have to take the test again. I’ll text you some available dates as soon as I’m in my car.”
I did try texting for awhile but with AT&T only half my text where going through… getting me in trouble. For example, I sent the following texts to my wife:
“Good morning my love!”
“How’s the greatest woman in the world?”
“I ate too much for breakfast…I’m so miserably full.”
“Bloated and fat. Totally disgusting.”
“How’s your mom doing?”
“I got a sunburn yesterday because I had to do my show outside at the festival.”
“It felt like I was a mile from the sun.”
“Who ever thought a big ball of gas would make me so miserable! :)”
I then looked to find that only half my texts went through…making it read like this:
“Good morning my love!”
“How’s the greatest woman in the world?”
“Bloated and fat. Totally disgusting.”
“How’s your mom doing?”
“Who ever thought a big ball of gas would make me so miserable! :)”
By the way, the smiley face I added at the end did not get me off the hook. So I have done away with my texting plan. I’m now trying out this new thing called “Talking to people”. It startles them at first and usually when they answer me they still look down while moving their thumbs in an imaginary typing motion. Some habits are very hard to break.
Anyway, it got me to thinking how awesome it is that we can actually talk to the Creator of the universe at any time. With God, we have an unlimited calling plan and the reception is always clear. So…here’s my question….have you made a call lately?