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gelfen
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i couldn't resist this one
Man Uses Mobile Phone as Personality
Gavin Wead, an accounts clerk from Tempe, has been using his mobile phone as substitute personality for sixteen months.
Buying the phone on a whim, after being swayed by a full page advert that appeared for it in Orienteering Monthly, Wead committed to the device for eighteen months, on a thirty dollar contract.
Although rarely receiving or making any calls with the phone, Wead quickly learnt every feature that the phone had to offer, using his skill with the appliance to win the attention of friends and family for brief periods at social functions.
Within a few short weeks, Wead began to develop confidence he’d never had before, sparking conversations with strangers on public transport and in lifts became a breeze to him, but he began to feel insecure when separated from his phone.
“It wasn’t like I noticed it straight away,” says the clerk in a confident monotone, “It’s more like I kind of didn’t not notice how much I depended on it.”
Buoyed by the success of the mobile, he began investing more and more efforts into maintaining it’s allure.
When he began to suspect that the popularity of the phone was fading, he invested in a series of different patterned covers for it, some of them relating to his one and only hobby, Orienteering. Ironically for Wead, when he is orienteering, his beloved phone is of little or no use to him at all.
Although Wead concedes that there are times when he misses the person that he was before he bought the phone, he thinks that overall, he’s a better person for having it.
“I was never that interesting before, and now, I think maybe I am just a little bit interesting.”
Although the phone hasn’t given him enough charisma to find a girlfriend, he has hopes that one day it will.
“I think if I talk to enough people on trains about it, then sooner or later one of them might turn out to be a girl – or at least know someone who’s a girl.”
Though coming to the end of his contract means an upheaval of his life for the moment, Wead is trying to concentrate on the positive aspects of it.
“I’m a bit scared, sure. But there’s also the option of maybe upgrading to an even more interesting phone, or even changing plans.”
Gavin Wead, an accounts clerk from Tempe, has been using his mobile phone as substitute personality for sixteen months.
Buying the phone on a whim, after being swayed by a full page advert that appeared for it in Orienteering Monthly, Wead committed to the device for eighteen months, on a thirty dollar contract.
Although rarely receiving or making any calls with the phone, Wead quickly learnt every feature that the phone had to offer, using his skill with the appliance to win the attention of friends and family for brief periods at social functions.
Within a few short weeks, Wead began to develop confidence he’d never had before, sparking conversations with strangers on public transport and in lifts became a breeze to him, but he began to feel insecure when separated from his phone.
“It wasn’t like I noticed it straight away,” says the clerk in a confident monotone, “It’s more like I kind of didn’t not notice how much I depended on it.”
Buoyed by the success of the mobile, he began investing more and more efforts into maintaining it’s allure.
When he began to suspect that the popularity of the phone was fading, he invested in a series of different patterned covers for it, some of them relating to his one and only hobby, Orienteering. Ironically for Wead, when he is orienteering, his beloved phone is of little or no use to him at all.
Although Wead concedes that there are times when he misses the person that he was before he bought the phone, he thinks that overall, he’s a better person for having it.
“I was never that interesting before, and now, I think maybe I am just a little bit interesting.”
Although the phone hasn’t given him enough charisma to find a girlfriend, he has hopes that one day it will.
“I think if I talk to enough people on trains about it, then sooner or later one of them might turn out to be a girl – or at least know someone who’s a girl.”
Though coming to the end of his contract means an upheaval of his life for the moment, Wead is trying to concentrate on the positive aspects of it.
“I’m a bit scared, sure. But there’s also the option of maybe upgrading to an even more interesting phone, or even changing plans.”
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batesie
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@Purge. theyre talking about you again...
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DungeonMaster
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He he thats true. A bright example is me. I met my girfriend when i bluejacked her. We are together 9 months. In greece when we first meet smone the first thing we do is exchanging mobile numbers. Yes. Home number comes one day after.
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Posted: 2004-05-07 09:21
