{"id":4532,"date":"2007-07-04T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/my-name-is-phil-and-i-am-a-recovering-crackberry-addict\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T22:23:00","slug":"my-name-is-phil-and-i-am-a-recovering-crackberry-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/my-name-is-phil-and-i-am-a-recovering-crackberry-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"My name is Phil and I am a recovering Crackberry addict"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crackberry\"<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u2019s official, I have come out of the closet and am confronting my addiction.  <\/span>I will be available for group therapy and counseling sessions to all you fellow recovering addicts.  <\/span>(In fact, I actually dropped mine into a bathtub a few weeks\u2019 ago which finally got me on the wagon, but that\u2019s another story\u2026..).  <\/span>Here are some telltale symptoms:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Onboarding a new job.<\/span><\/strong>  <\/span>Your chief concern is your new firm\u2019s PDA policy.  <\/span>Will they support Blackberry?  <\/span>Will they buy you that latest model that has you salivating, or will they force you to use some bug-ridden Microsoft pocket PC thing?  <\/span>You really don\u2019t want to look at the new Health plan, that 401K, or expense policy until that all-important PDA issue has been resolved.  <\/span>You proceed to spend your first afternoon selecting your preferred PDA, and the majority of your fourth day (when it arrives) talking to tech support getting the thing working.  <\/span>Then you worry profusely that you didn\u2019t select the right model (that suretype method sure is tricky) and that leather pouch just don\u2019t look quite as sexy clipped to your belt as you had envisioned\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>ADD.  <\/span><\/span><\/strong>You knew you had a latent case, but now it\u2019s fully rampant.  <\/span>Conversations can barely last 2 minutes before you have to have a sneak.  <\/span>You start to hang out with other addicts at work to avoid feeling awkward\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Driving.<\/span><\/strong>  <\/span>You have mastered the art of one-handed emailing on the dreaded device while changing lanes on the tollway at 75 mph.  <\/span>Oh \u2013 and the quick \u201ctwo hands off the wheel routine\u201d to switch between applications is a little risky, but you have already resigned yourself to the fact that crackberrying comes with death-defying risks.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Flying.<\/span><\/strong>  <\/span>A) You have already been busted on several occasions by flight attendants for taking a sneak-peak after<\/em> the \u201cturn off all your electrical devices\u201d warning.  <\/span>I mean – are you really going to derail your plane just \u2018cause your pilot’s got some annoying feedback going off in his headphones?  <\/span>and B) Upon your plane hitting the tarmac you are primed and ready with your finger at the \u201con\u201d switch for the very moment the pilot pads his breaks.  <\/span>You thank the Lord for the invaluable extra 120 seconds of Crackberry time you created for yourself as a result of your precision timing, before staring intently at the little screen to watch those new memos pop into view\u2026. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Social occasions.   <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Your spouse has specifically warned you about Crackberrying in front of the guests.  <\/span>The conversation is caught in a vociferous debate between the merits of the \u201986 Margaux and that great run of \u201999 Cabs\u2026. You can\u2019t take it anymore\u2026 you sneak to the washroom\u2026just one reception bar, but that\u2019s enough to get those little memos popping in\u2026.phew.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>The Bedroom.  <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Your spouse has banned it\u2026you have resorted to hiding it in the bedside table drawer\u2026.you wake up at 4.00am in a cold sweat\u2026.\u201djust a quick hit\u201d you think, sneaking it out of the drawer\u2026.you feel a slap\u2026you turn around and there she is \u2013 a look of ferocious hatred on her face\u2026.oh no, this isn\u2019t good\u2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Brickbreaker.<\/span><\/strong>  <\/span>You have a colossal problem here \u2013 you have spent more time on this mind-numbing game that you did with the \u2018Cube in the \u201880s\u2026you start having conversations about the infernal game with complete strangers also playing it on planes\u2026\u201dI just can\u2019t get past that level with all the bricks blah blah\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

8)      <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Power-precautions<\/span><\/strong>.  <\/span>You have a spare battery (always fully charged) and a spare charger.  <\/span>Now that is<\/em> serious\u2026.even I wasn\u2019t that<\/em> bad <\/span>J<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Parishilton35\"<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Crackberry addict spotted earler.  This one clearly has issues….<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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