Life without an iPhone
Published June 26th, 2008 in 3G, AT&T, iPhoneLast night I went shopping with my wife at the mall to get a present for my sister-in-law’s 20th birthday.
It was the first time I have gone shopping (2+ hours) without my iPhone since I got it back in October.
It was a……… different experience. I had nothing to do, to fiddle with or play on. It was just weird. Looking up while walking through the mall, not just looking down at my phone and hoping to not walk into a rack of clothes.
And you know what? It wasn’t half bad. We talked a lot, and I saw some pretty interesting clothes and kids. For those of you with teenagers or tweenies, my heart goes out to you. 
What’s one event that you don’t think you could go to without your iPhone? Give it a try sometime. Go grocery shopping with your significant other and leave it at home. I dare you.
Man, I get yelled at when I use my iPhone when Jordan and I are doing something, haha. Well, kinda sorta anyway. It’s definitely nice to have though when the woman is trying on clothes. Just run a quick email check, or post to twitter. But if she catches me, it’s over.
*Sigh*
We ran all over Yangon looking for a refrigerator Tuesday. We went to 8 different stores, costing us about 10,000 Kyat total (sure, it’s only about 9 dollars, but once you’re used to paying 5 cents for a trip on the bus, 9 dollars looks really big)
If only I had an iPhone and a 3G network, and then of course the companies would need to cooperate and post their products online, and then they would have to be able to receive a call on phone lines that are always working, and then…
Haha, life in this place has definitely forced me to slow down, and expect to not get as much done as I’d like. Even not even having a regular cell phone to play with was an adjustment. If anything, Heather and I have gotten A LOT more time to talk. And we get more of a chance to watch the culture around us with hopes to understand it someday. There are a lot of pluses to life like this.
We miss you and Jen so much!
And by the way, I think this site idea is great!
yeah, my life’s been going like that lately…and then the two of you are talking about something, and then it’s like *wham* what was the name of that dude that did the thing you were just talking about…and then you find yourself yelling at the clerk cause their register has a touch screen, but can’t access the internet, lol