Digital Leash

I was recently given a work phone to carry around. To be exact, its a Blackberry Tour. The phone is pretty spectacular, although I am not as enthusiastic about it as my coworker who was also bequeathed one - probably because my personal phone is an iPhone.

I spent the two hours with it sitting on my desk, in it's box. I wasn't sure what to do with it. Its not like I was scared of it or anything, I just had this underlying fear that I would succumb to the Crackberry phenomenon.

People with this addiction would make you believe their Blackberries' are an extension of their professional persona. They were given the absolute power to respond to emails from virtually anywhere:

Me: Hey John, can you swing by my office to pick up the Alaska file?
John: n a bit, i m in the bthrm
Me: Ok, I'll just catch you later
John: no, no, its kewl, i'll stop by when i m done

My next present to John is going to be a package of sanitizing wipes for his phone.