Last Saturday I was playing a snooker tournament at the Zuma in Peer, Belgium. As the preliminary rounds of this tournament are played in a round robin system, I had some time between games. So I decided to pick my iPhone and do some reading.
About an hour later I go outside to get some fresh air, and the owner of the club asks me whether I don’t have an issue with playing snooker since my iPhone always seems to stick to my hands. He then also tells his wife that I have 3 laptops at home, after which she decides to ask me: “You don’t have friends, do you?”
My reply was a very stern “I beg your pardon”, and I decided to leave it at that. Sometimes it is not worth going into an argument.
But later that evening I thought of an excellent reply. Why o why not at the same moment, but that happens too often.
“Would you have asked about my lack of friends if I was holding a newspaper or a book?”
Because that was what I was doing: reading De Standaard Online and The Power of Pull via Kindle for iPhone.
My previous post was about prejudice, and this one was a pretty clear example as well.
These days a phone can be so much more than a device for calling or texting people. I wonder how long it will take before the non-tech people will start to realise that fact?
