Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ouch…I just fell off my moral high horse! And it hurts.

I always knew he was clever but I never realized just how much. I had no clue that he was capable of such devious plotting. I concede that I wrote a few articles here at his expense. Okay, so I pulled his leg a few times publicly and enjoyed it too but for a spouse of 16 years, couldn’t he just take it in his stride? Was this action really necessary? Could you, in all honesty, justify it?

Let me be frank here. I didn’t see it coming at all. Not until it fell into my lap. I never once heard him say anything like ‘If I go down, I am taking you down with me.’ No such hints were dropped in my presence. He kept it under tight wraps till that day just so he could catch me off guard. According to him, it was a ‘surprise’ for me! Yeah, right…..like I am buying it. It wasn’t enough that he ended up an addict. He had to now go and make me one too.

Guess what my husband got me for my birthday last month? A Droid phone with 24/7 internet access, that’s what. How LOW can he get? Has he no shame?

Before this gift, I was having such a splendid time looking down my nose at the Droid phone addiction of the world at large, feeling superior about my self-control and strutting around with a smug smile plastered on my face. Riding high on a moral high horse was my specialty then. These days I can’t even crawl on the back of a moral pig.

Upon accepting his gift, I first gave him a look that was sure to wither a healthy young plant, then pulled up a chair and got busy. Obviously, there was no time to waste with a whole new world to explore at my fingertips. Several You Tube videos were beckoning me with the promise of entertainment, a built-in voice recorder was begging me to play with it and a digital camera was tempting me to click the ‘Kodak moments’ of life away. With these, also came a plethora of free applications that offered to keep track of my grocery lists, calorie intake, frequency of burping, pulse rate, dry cleaning schedule and cooking recipes. Oh, get this. I even found a free app to download a special pink calendar to keep track of my menstrual cycle with all its lovely details. Can’t believe it? Well, if I didn’t see it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it either. It is a miracle indeed.

If God had ever marked both this phone and the fruit from the tree of knowledge as forbidden in the Garden of Eden, guess what Adam and Eve would have chosen? Could you really blame them? Even Satan would bow low in submission to such devilry.

So now I have officially joined the ranks of the many whose lives are inexplicably tied to their phones. Do the phone companies realize that they are creating monsters around the world?

Yesterday evening, I looked up for a minute from my Droid phone only to find my husband and daughter sprawled over the couch across from me with their eyes locked onto their respective phones. Just weeks ago, stumbling upon a scene like this would have led me to launch one of my well-rehearsed lectures on the ill effects of technology addiction and ways to develop self-control. Now, all I can do is heave a sigh of resignation and get back to my game.

You have got to hand it to my husband. He really did kill 2 birds with one stone here. He got me (my friends insist) a great gift while at the same time, silencing my protests and lectures about his phone addiction effectively. Obviously the man is devious!

If you are sitting there mentally congratulating my husband on his clever mind, hear this too. Now that he has taken care of his problem (me)once and for all, guess what he got me for our anniversary last week? A pillow from Costco!

Makes me think that my Droid phone isn't so bad after all.

-Meena Sankaran

8 comments:

nivi said...

HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAH

As u know, its exam time and i was in the verge of panic... WAS.

HILARIOUS chithi :)

Srilatha said...

LOL..You've joined all of us low riders :-)

In defense of us pig riders, I say this: Pigs are inherently sanitary, they are nature's cleaners - they get rid of all waste, they are intelligent, one of them is George Clooney's pet, they are immortalized in P G Wodehouse's Blandings series.. and to drive the point home - one of them is George Clooney's pet ;)
So us pig riders rule from our down low perches and you are in this exclusive company..

Meena Sankaran said...

@ Nivi: How does it feel to be an AVK now? So glad that I could clear the cobwebs of panic even if only for a few minutes.

@ Srilatha: I can't quite find the right words to express how I feel about being in the exclusive company of George Clooney's pet. Don't know if my heart can stand such excitement. I'm seriously overwhelmed here.

:-)))

நாகு (Nagu) said...

ha ha ha....

good one. Next year all in the household will be glued to their laptops and nobody would be complaining about me! Not that I hear much now.

Srilatha: Thanks for reminding me - Empress and Lord Emsworth are always wonderful reads...

anamikasureka said...

First time on your blog...

I rarely find woman who can make me laugh...

anamikasureka said...

First time on your blog...

I rarely find woman who can make me laugh...

Meena Sankaran said...

Welcome Anamikasureka!

Making you (my reader) smile, chuckle or laugh is my goal in writing so thank you for letting me know that I made you laugh. I need no better motivation to write more.:-)

Meena Sankaran said...

I am glad you enjoyed the post Nagu. Why next year? I remember seeing several laptops in your house already hence the question why next year???