Cell phone addiction?

Okay, let me just start by saying this.. I am a confessed cell phone hugger.. meaning that I usually don't stray to far from my cell.  I keep it nice and close and get real irritated when anyone asks to use it.  I spend a lot of time snapping selfies, or taking pics of my kids.  I use to check my Facebook but as stated in previous blog, that is no longer.  Just because I am a hugger of thy cellular device, does not mean that I am co-dependent on the darn thing.  When I am at the dinner table, the #1 rule is no cellphones.  When driving I don't normally touch it.   I can honestly be okay going an entire day  w/out so much as worrying where it is, as long as I know where it is.

The real meaning behind this topic is my friend is a complete cell phone junkie!  I promise you this, she is the best person to tell your secrets to.. I could tell her I was the second gunman on the grass null and that I stole the Lindbergh baby, and she wouldn't tell a soul.... I would like to tell you all that its because she is such an awesome friend and my secrets would go to the grave with her.  Truth is, she would't hear a darn thing I said.  This girl is constantly on her phone.  She has got to be close to the end of the internet... Seriously!  She has logged herself onto these dating websites, and talks to people most of the time, snapping selfies, sending them to her "POF" boyfriend.  For those of you unaware of what POF is it stands for Plenty of Fish.  Its a online dating sight.    She said something to me the other day and I wanted to smack the stupid out of her mouth.  She says that her battery just wont hold a charge and that it HAS to be the cord she uses to charge her phone.  ARE YOU KIDDING... its because you have that thing in your hands scrolling and trolling ALL OF THE TIME!  Give that poor thing a rest and maybe it would.  She drains the battery down to 0% on a daily basis, probably more then once a day.  OF COURSE the battery isn't going to hold a charge!!  In all seriousness I adore this girl, we've been friends for over 25yrs.  We have been through some of the craziest times of my life.  I am learning that as times goes by, that I am becoming second to a dang phone.   There.. I've said it.. I am jealous of that damn phone.  I would like to have that friend back that actually listened to what I had to say.   Instead of staring at her cell phone and glancing up a few times and w/ a generic uh huh or oh.   I would like some real conversation.  I suppose this is the world we live in now, my daughter actually sent me a text from the other room once.  YOU better believe I was all over that not so smart move.    I may put up signs in my home that say no cell phone usage in the building, that its prohibited and violators will be shot on sight!  Well here is to the friends we've lost to the addiction of Cell phones.  May you never lose service and always have wifi!

~sls