ISN’T it wonderful how each new high-tech gadget we become addicted to finds a way to inject chaos and disruption into our lives? We’re thinking here of cellphones, whose owners are tech-savvy enough to program buttons for frequently-dialled numbers, but not enough to lock the keypad when they put the things in their pockets or bags.
The results are predictable. We know one person whose Italian colleague’s phone is always accidentally dialling him and treating him to the ambient sounds of public transport in Rome. Another keeps getting mysterious calls featuring a Spanish language instruction tape, while another was treated…
