The 21st-century pack mule
Cats: slack woman|Remember when packing your bags for a weekend trip away was a simple process of getting a bag, chucking in an extra pair of pants, clean socks and fresh underpants? Oh those were the days.
Today you need experience working in Future Shop in order to locate and assemble all the technology you will need for your two days away. There’s your mobile phone, your laptop, the digital camera, the iPod, the Gameboys, the DS, the PSP and all their pint-sized game cassettes.
And once you find these things, you’re just getting started because then there’s the peripherals: the charging-up cords, memory cards, battery chargers, the USB downloading cords, back-up storage devices because a computer knows when you don’t have your back-up storage device and it will hold it against you.
By the time you get everything located, sorted out and packed, you’re ready to wrap one of those cords around someone’s neck. Go here for more on this modern weekend packing ritual.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:55 am
I don’t know if we are still in post 9/11 airport security, but you better make sure everything is charged before you get to the security checkpoint. I witnessed a kid have his walkman taken from him at YVR because he couldn’t show that it worked.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
It’s true! That’s why I try to take as few technological devices as possible when I travel. I’ve whittled it down to my laptop and cell phone.
Yes, I should be studying. But surfing is more fun.
Oh, and I thought you might like this, after all of your posts on IMenglish
http://www.devilducky.com/media/60413/