#2 Mobile Freaks

Every Thing Around Me Is Funny!

(Except Me of Course)

Mobile Freaks

There are many types of people around me, some are good in speaking, some in singing, some in acting, some in playing video games and the list goes on…

But there are some people, who aren’t good at anything! But how could they live with this fact? So they indulge themselves in the one device that binds us all!! Cell phones, or commonly known as mobiles!

We all have our sanctuaries! I spend a lot of time on the internet while my ears are blazing with heavy metal! Some invest their time in good theatre, while some just stay home clearing new stages of some cool games. Similarly the “Phone Freaks” hangs infinitely near or around a mobile store!!

These people have nothing, (yes u heard it right!) nothing else to talk about!! They have devoted their entire life on mobiles!! Its kinda like a sports fan memorizing all the cool trivia of their favorite sport, only weirder!

Like this one time I went to a mobile store for a recharge, I met this classmate of mine hanging around there. Little did I know that he was one of the phone freaks!!

So the moment he saw my cell phone he went like, “Oh My God!! Where did you find that?” and I informed it that I had bought it! And that was it. He started giving me sayings and knowledge about how old my mobile was and how little it solved its purpose! He went on and said mouthful names of some technologies which I had no idea were present in phones! At a certain point in his conversation I felt like I was doing a criminal offence walking around with a mobile like that!!

Finally, after an hour-long lecture to recycle my phone at the earliest, he asked me to buy a new mobile as soon as possible!

I loved my mobile! I used to think that it was most reliable and stable handsets ever! But since the day “The Governor of mobile freaks” pointed out its short-comings, it wasn’t at all the same for me. It was kind of like when you are out with your girlfriend, and someone points out all the faults in her. Its never the same after that! Why? Did he have to do that?

A point in reference, these freaks won’t use a bit of the technology they are boasting of in their mobiles, but its gotta be there!! They’ll say that they have facility to use the same mobile everywhere in the world when they’ve never set a foot outta their own town! They’ll boast of some brilliant feature to communicate like Push to talk but won’t ever find it helpful cause they are the only one with it! They will say their mobile is capable of operating in a network which has no intention to be introduced here in the next 5 years, and if there is one bit of consistency about these people!! Its that they can’t stay on one mobile for long!!

If you could compare this situation with the dating scene, they are more like the persons who enjoy one night stands instead of a long term commitment!!

“If your chick is hotter than mine then I’ll just throw away mine a get a chick hotter than yours!”

Ah! Who am I to blame them!! Once the shortcomings of my mobile were pointed out, me… the person who had used that same mobile for 5 years couldn’t stick to it! And so, finally after a long week of turmoil, I decided to buy myself a new mobile. And who might be a better person to suggest me one than the governor himself! (Or so I thought!).

You see, whenever you think of buying something new which is an important part of your life, there is always a thinking process, and there is always an expert advisor. Normally the time of this advisor is really scarce, since his advices are fetched by many other people like you. But in my case the story was a little different. (Alright, a lot different).

I found my advisor right where I last left him, the mobile store. And when I informed him that I am finally ready to move on from my previous mobile to a new one, he gave me a life-altering speech!

“My dear friend! You today have taken a decision that’ll change your life forever. Today, you stood up against monotone and stepped up to make your life exiting!”

I was feeling a little like Neo of The Matrix, making my life-altering change.

And thus started the process of choosing my next mobile!

We went from stores to stores and came back with tons of information brochures, then sat down and scatter through them, in search of the ultimate mobile the consumer world has to offer me!

Hours turned into days and days into weeks. The energy which was in me was quickly extinguishing! My friend who seemed to found his life’s purpose would sit in midst of all the documents and blabber to himself. Often making notes and calculations into his notebook. He would sometime shout in between phrases like,

“Where are you? Come out wherever you are!!”

Or something like,

“Its out there!! I can feel it!”

Or sometimes when he would be a little low, things like,

“It’s a myth!! It’s a myth!!”

Finally, after a month he gave up! He came to me, a broken shell of a person I once knew and said to me,

“I can’t! I can’t! All this time I thought that I knew everything, now I realized how hollow my knowledge was!”

I grabbed him up and told him

“No My friend! You’ve shown me that there’s no other mobile suited for me than my own! It was a mistake trying to move on from my perfect companion!”

We hugged; both had tears in our eyes!!

P.S. Next week, I went in a store a got myself a new mobile. Just like that! (Down with you mobile freak!!)