Joke: Phones Anonymous

I was sitting on a plane (again) on Wednesday evening as we landed into Dublin airport, I noticed the most amusing thing. It moved like a wave down the camera as I listened to almost an echo of the Nokia tone as people jumped to turn their phone on immediately upon landing. Who says people aren't addicted?
Now this is being written by someone a) who used to work for a Mobile phone operator, b) has had a mobile phone since 1998, and c) has a personal best of a monthly phone bill of €1000+ (while working for the mobile phone operator ;) so please take this as very tongue in cheek.

I'm going to set up PAA. I know it doesn't sound as catchy as AA, but Phone Addicts Annonymous should do really really well!
Picture it:
"Hi, my name is ...... and I'm a phone addict"
"The first step on my road to curing my illness is to accept my illness"
"The first thing I do in the morning is turn over to turn my phone on. Actually that's not right, I don't even turn it off anymore - it sleeps right beside me. I call it my other girlfriend"
"Sometimes I find myself unconsciously looking at it in the hope that it says 'one new message received'"
"I've even found I'm comfortable enough now to have conversations for the world to hear while walking down the middle of streets surrounded by complete strangers"
"And whenever I have to stand around waiting for someone/thing, I find myself punching away on those tiny buttons (unless I've an iphone where it doesn't have any....oh never mind...) to keep myself occupied. It's like the little angel (or devil?) that sits on my shoulder."
"I find I can't go more than a short period without it. You should see what I'm like when I forget to bring it with me. OH I'M SO SORRY PHONE FOR LEAVING YOU BEHIND - FORGIVE ME!!!!!"

"someday, my aim is not to look the phone screen before a message has arrived"
"I know it'll take time, but I'm willing to work on it"

[INSERT CLAPPING NOISE FROM OTHER PAA ATTENDEE'S]





Have a good weekend all!