Last week, a man was arrested for ‘extracting electricity’ on a London train, just the latest victim of the clammy panic that strikes when there’s no way to charge up. Here’s how to rise above the stress of the smartphone red-zone
Have you ever felt that sudden, intense dread that you’re about to die? That in less than seven minutes, the knot of fear and anxiety unspooling at speed will swallow you whole, rendering your life blank and your existence meaningless? And all because you failed to prepare! You idiot! And now you’re on a train carriage in a clammy panic desperately searching for hope. Also known as “a plug point”. Also known as the one thing keeping you connected and alive, contactable at all times for an urgent call about the missold PPI you’ve never bought.
Dead-battery anxiety is a thing. Last week a man named Robin Lee was told he would be arrested, presumably for crimes against electricity, if he refused to unplug his iPhone from a socket on the London Overground. He didn’t, and he was – only to be “de-arrested” later while self-righteously claiming “the whole thing was ridiculous”, unlike his normalised need to be “on” at all times.
A woman on the Hong Kong public-transport system dealt with her dead phone by crying and screaming for help
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 15 hours ago.
Have you ever felt that sudden, intense dread that you’re about to die? That in less than seven minutes, the knot of fear and anxiety unspooling at speed will swallow you whole, rendering your life blank and your existence meaningless? And all because you failed to prepare! You idiot! And now you’re on a train carriage in a clammy panic desperately searching for hope. Also known as “a plug point”. Also known as the one thing keeping you connected and alive, contactable at all times for an urgent call about the missold PPI you’ve never bought.
Dead-battery anxiety is a thing. Last week a man named Robin Lee was told he would be arrested, presumably for crimes against electricity, if he refused to unplug his iPhone from a socket on the London Overground. He didn’t, and he was – only to be “de-arrested” later while self-righteously claiming “the whole thing was ridiculous”, unlike his normalised need to be “on” at all times.
A woman on the Hong Kong public-transport system dealt with her dead phone by crying and screaming for help
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 15 hours ago.