What did you do before you got a smart phone? If, while pondering this question, you suffered convulsions, vomiting, cold sweats, feelings of paranoia, uncontrollable crying, or boils forming on the soles of your feet, you might have a problem. Here are some other Leith Acura of Cary signs you might be addicted to your smart phone.
- You consider your smart phone "the best, most loyal friend you’ve ever had." You cite the time you threw it against the wall after checking football scores and the phone still did everything you asked it to do.
- You sleep with it under your pillow just in case an H1N1 virus alert comes out on your brand-spanking new Swine Flu app.
- You named your phone and listed it as a reference on your most recent job application. You even went and bought it a regular phone just in case the prospective employer wanted to contact it.
- You exceeded the data limits on your "unlimited" data plan.
- Even though you’ve never watched an NFL football game in your life, you signed up for 12 fantasy football teams just so you can check football statistics on your smart phone for 13 consecutive hours each Sunday.
- You think your ex-girlfriend should be honored you broke up with her with a text message sent from your smart phone.
- You text message your date...who’s sitting across from you at dinner.
- You’re that Facebook "guy" or "girl," the one who updates the profile five or six times a minute, the one everyone secretly makes fun of for being on Facebook all the time.
- You only leave your smart phone at home while you’re shopping for another smart phone because you don’t want to make it angry or jealous (Smart phones aren’t as smart as their name implies. The "I forgot you, dear friend" excuse works every time, even when it discovers lipstick on your ear).
- You’re reading this from your smart phone and have feelings of guilt or shame.
- You think maybe if you picked up a new habit—smoking or heroine, for example—you might be able to kick the smart phone habit.
- Your wife left you. You forgot your son’s birthday even though he was born yesterday. You got fired from your job. You got kicked out of your house. You prepaid your smart phone data plan for the next year.
- Before planning any vacation, you make sure the area gets smart phone reception.
- Your smart phone is on your Christmas shopping list...not the Christmas shopping lists of things you’re going to buy, but the list of people you’re going to buy for.
- You avoid flying because they force you to turn your phone off.
If you have a problem, seek help. Use your smart phone, if necessary.
