Chapter Four
The world Chris introduced to me was alien and equally impenetrable to my somewhat technophobic mind. I wasn’t a total klutz mind and, when it came to the computer, knew what I needed to get by when it came to creating documents, copying and pasting, emailing, and attaching those documents - and surfing the Internet, of course. But that was about the extent of my computer nous.
And when it came to mobiles – or “Cell-Phones” as our cousins across the pond described them?
Again, and to be kind, my knowledge of them was functional – and that on the most basic of levels. I receive a text, send a text, make calls and get them back. And that’s it. My interest in new technology – at least in the faddy playground iPhone, computer-game area, etc., was minimal.
Which didn’t mean I w
