I'm pretty sure all of us has experienced the sensation of one of our appendages falling asleep. I have woken up in the morning with my hand completely numb and had to start shaking it to get some feeling back in in my fingers.
Cell phones are great for passing the time when you have to wait for something, like a long line if you happen to be in a store and wanting to return something, or waiting in line for your morning cup of coffee, waiting for anything really. They help pass the time really well.
What they really excel at is your bathroom time, no longer do you have to sit staring at the wall listening to your body remove it's waste, but therein lies a problem, the amount of time we spend in the washroom has been expanded by huge margins.
A two minute bathroom break now can be ten minutes to a half an hour depending on what you are doing on your phone, and this is where I bring the title of this blog into focus. I have sat on the toilet for so long playing on my phone that my butt has fallen asleep.
And not only my butt, my legs and feet have joined the party as well. I have had to slap my feet on the floor like two dead fishes until I have gotten enough feeling back in them so that I can stand back up and get out of there. I know I'm terrible when the ole bathroom break comes along and now I almost fear it. I don't realize the passage of time when I am engrossed in a time wasting technological marvel that is the cell phone.
Why is it that I can sit in a vehicle for three hours on a long road trip and not a thing goes numb? Give me fifteen minutes in the bathroom and I become a paraplegic from the waist down. It's very annoying but the thought of leaving my phone outside when I use the bathroom is almost impossible to think about.
What's even worse I that know what I am doing and I know how to fix it but I don't, because it would be inconvenient for me. How sad is that? I would rather have my ass go numb than be done in the bathroom sooner and avoid the very uncomfortable feeling of of my appendages falling asleep.
Scott Goerz
