Feb 22
Weekly columun: So I get the BlackBerry….
Cats: Uncategorized, slack woman|I get the holster and the hook to attach it to my belt.
I get the fancy email address and the special passwords. I get the “cool” of behind a BlackBerry hipster.
And then I get something really funny.
A call.
I hadn’t been anticipating this. What do I do? There’s so many buttons and they are so small. My finger’s so big.
My finger needs to go on a diet in order to work this thing.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Loved your Blackberry wit!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
Heehee, the exact same thing happened to me last week…I finally got a call and thought, “uh oh!”
I refuse to wear the holster though. What am I, a doctor? A policewoman? A transformer?
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
P.S. After texting on a regular cell phone, the Blackberry buttons feel positively gargantuan.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I have seen these things to which you refer…the darker side.
Perhaps I’ve plateaued in life for not having these technologies, and perhaps my time will come. For now I will enjoy listening to my phone messages and checking my e-mail once a day, and enjoying the peace and quiet the rest of the time.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
For the love of god, if there is a vibrate option, don’t acccidentally choose that!
He Who Must Not Be Named and I must be cut from the same sadistic cloth, as I was pondering how I was going to get your Blackberry number to give you a call. But I’ll just leave that in his capable hands.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
ddlh, thanks, you know, live and die by your BlackBerry.
Deepti, what’s the use of having a blackberry if you can’t have it riding on your hip?
Deepti 2, really, what kind of phone were you using?
Dick, Amen. If you don’t need one, don’t get one. IT makes life much simpler and more peaceful
BB, I love it when the thing is on the table, starts moving while vibrating and then falls off.
Don’t call us babe, we’ll call you!
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have a Palm Treo which is like the Blackberry’s retarded cousin. I still haven’t figured out how to answer calls consistently. Basically, it’s great as long as you don’t have to use it as a phone.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
There’s just something very masculine about having things hanging off your hip. Purse, handbag, jacket pocket. That’s where mine goes. Also, I had a KRZR before. Oh sleek beauty, I miss thee.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Thankfully, I don’t have phone service turned on but I did have an awkward moment where I was trying to type an email on my Blackberry and talk on my cell phone at the same time. I had the strangest feeling that I looked incredibly nerdy.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Had a cell phone last summer since I was living away from home for two months. It was a disaster. I could never get the darn thing open in time to say hello before receiving the dreaded “missed call” message. Agh! I threw it in an known drawer somewhere. Hopefully someday someone will call me on it so I can follow the ring in hopes of finding it again.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Obviously that should read unknown drawer. If I knew which drawer it would not be lost.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
Chance, that’s my problem, sometimes I get them, sometimes I don’t. It’s a bit like “can you snatch this pebble from my palm”
Deepti, oh God, a cell phone ringing at the bottom of your purse - that’s the worst because everything has to come out of your purse first
Chelene, I know people who confront that dilemma by having a talking cell and an emailing cell.
toccata, Missed Caller - it’s like my best friend who calls all the time.
toccata, unknown drawers are good places to put many things
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
um, Deepti, what’s a KRZR?
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
KRZR is the RZR’s edgy cousin.
I have a pay as you go Virgin Movile Oystr that Piko deGallo blinged out for me with sticky jewels. We make Sarge use it at work when he can’t find his own phone. You know, he has not lost his phone in months? Nobody ever calls me, so I rarely get to whip it out.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Uh-oh, the “Crackberry.” Life and your thumbs, are over as you know it.
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Did you get the 8320?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
MdG, still don’t know what KRZR is. Deepti?
Welcome to GT WP. I call it my CrystalMeth Berry.
WP, I think it’s the 8700, ancient I’m afraid.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2006/07/motorola-krzr-1.jpg
February 24th, 2008 at 12:24 am
oh, ok, i get it now. So, does that make me a loser?
February 24th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Not knowing what a KRZR is? Nah. I only know cause I got one.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:29 am
I wanted the 8700 except it doesn’t have a camera. The 8700 and the 8320 are the only ones rated as good phones on C-Net for T-Mobile as a carrier. Something keeps coming up financially, or I’d be in Crackberry twelve-step with the rest of you.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Stay where you are WP, it’s nicer, safer place.
Deepti, phew! I wouldn’t want to be accused of being an *lol* loser.