Witnessing A Smartphone Meltdown

Ivo Gretener

AAAARRRGGGHHH!

I am watching someone I barely know have a smartphone meltdown.

We were cc'd with a lot of other people on an e-mail. Apparently she hit reply-all, typed half of a sentence, and then couldn't aim well enough on her touchscreen and accidentally hit send.

Then she typed the exact same half sentence and then again accidentally hit send.

Then she typed a different half sentence ... and couldn't figure out how to finish it, because she hit send halfway through again.

Then she sent something with a different, misspelled subject line. The actual e-mail was blank except for that supposedly funny disclaimer people put on their e-mails to say that they typed them on tiny keyboards so they should be allowed offensive spelling.

More aborted, abbreviated, unintentionally funny e-mails keep rolling into my inbox. It's like she could not stop herself from hitting the wrong part of her touch screen over and over and over.

It's like watching a Lindsay Lohan slideshow on one of those paparazzi websites. In the first picture she's wobbling a little too much on her high heels. In the second picture her hair is mussed. By the time you get to the last picture you've seen her lacy underwear and her mug shot, and you really wish you hadn't clicked on the link at all because all you've gained is a little sadness at the waste of a talented actress.

I can't help but feel that the fancy touchscreen smartphone is a little wasted on my acquaintance today.