Stop me if I've said this before, I’m having a weird 'de ja’blog' feeling.
I'm not a terribly spontaneous person, you know us control freaks can't afford to be. We plan and make lists and organize the shit out of everything before jumping into our perfectly created spontaneity. It's how we work.
This afternoon though, I decided to just hop into the car and run over to the mall and see if I could find a map of Europe.
Sad and shameful as it is to admit this, I'm geographically challenged. I live in France so that one is easy to point to on a map. I also know where my closest neighbor is, Spain is south. Then Britain's that island thing over there, Ireland is the other island thing over there, Italy is shaped like a boot, Portugal is attached to Spain and Greece is all those little islands. Honestly though, could not pick Germany, Holland, Sweden or Switzerland out of a line up if they were wearing name tags. Facing this inadequacy head on as we anal types are apt to do, I thought I’d buy one of those big wall maps of the world and one of Europe and put them up on my office wall and brush up on my geography a little bit each day. Heaven forbid I should wind up in Algeria and not know where I am on the globe. Or worse when S travels, I know where he is, but not where he actually IS.
So anyway, hop into the car, and get about 4 or 5 miles, oops sorry, kilometers down the road and suddenly realize that I left my cell phone plugged in at home. And furthermore I left my pocket PC in its cradle too. IF something should happen I have no phone nor do I know S’s cell phone number or anyone else’s for that matter to call for assistance or just amusement. All of my info is in that damned palm top PC. I was electronically NAKED! I cannot tell you how close I came to just pulling a U-turn at the next circle and heading home. It was damned near a panic attack because I was unplugged!
Well, I mean I got a hold of myself and went on to the mall, but for a moment there it was pretty touch and go. Then when I thought about it, feeling a little ashamed, I realized that though all of this electronic gadgetry is relatively new, I don’t honestly recall what I did before I had all of my friends and family with me at the touch of a button. I don’t remember how it felt not to have a cell phone safety net, or to have to actually REMEMBER pertinent information.
I’m cured of spontaneity. I’ll never do that again, it’s too dangerous!
We don’t have to wait for ‘skynet’ to become self aware and kill us all (Terminator) we’re already screwed by the machines.
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I know that you are all waiting to hear about the St. Patrick’s Day party and I promise to post that tomorrow. I have a couple of pictures to share but they’re on S’s camera and it’s with him at work today. Suffice it to say that we had a BLAST!
