What A Shame

Something in today's paper about BlackBerry users caught my eye. Of course, normally I have next to no interest in articles about new-fangled devices, but this one wasn't concerned with the devices per se but rather the odd creatures that make use of them. It seems that these particular gadgets are now deeply unfashionable for unaccountable reasons that make sense to someone somewhere, but not to me. Anyway this being so it was reported that many owners suffer shame and public humiliation if seen having to make use of one.

Now we're not talking about children here, or highly self-conscious teenagers who might have some excuse, but adults, most of whom, I assume, are in fairly high-powered careers. And we're not talking about a mild sense of being slightly behind the times, according to the article, but reasonably deep and powerful emotions. Well, as deep as emotions might go in folks who seem remorselessly shallow. Hah!