The Sms Saga!

Beep beep. One message received. “Good morning”.
Options-Reply-Empty screen –“Hi da, good morning”.

This is one usual routine that takes place in my home or probably many other homes as well. This little article is to make people obsessed with mobile phones realize how silly they can be!

Characters:

Sujatha – The girl obsessed with mobile phones and smses!
Sandhya- The little sister who is irritated with her sister’s obsession!
Mother- Who is tired of advising her daughter!
Mobile phone – The irresistible culprit!

SCENE -1
Time – 10.30 pm
Location- Home sweet home

Beep…beep…..
Sandy- Switch that stupid cell phone off and let me sleep.
Suja- It’s my friend di, you don’t bother, just sleep.
Sandy- Whatever!

Beep… beep…
This time it’s my mother.
Mother – Suja, andha phonea off pannittu padukkara vazhiyai paaru…
Suja- nee thoongu maa….naan edho pannikuraen….

This continues for a while and after a few minutes all of them are in deep sleep.

SCENE -2
Time -6 am

Beep…beep
Mother- I never need an alarm to get up!
Suja- (keeps quiet and messages back)
This messaging continues even amidst my mom’s scolding and the time to get ready to go to college.

My sister is so busy smsing most of the time that she hardly knows whats happening at home or in her surroundings. Most of the time she doesn’t even reply to what I say…..seriously!

SCENE -3
Time- 5 pm (just after she returns from college)

Sandy- “So, how was college today?”
Suja- (no reply)…??
Sandy- “I asked how was college today?”
Suja- After a pause and a surprising look at my face, “I need to watch that movie CD which
my friend gave me.”

Thanks a lot…that’s what I wanted! I wonder what these cell phones have that we don’t have. Smsing has become one of the most popular things among college goers these days. Who would have thought that my sister, who once upon a time was an introvert would land up making so many friends that she doesn’t have
time for her own family…zamana badal gaya hai! (Times have changed).

Whenever the two of us go out together, I make an attempt to talk to her about school and other gossips, but that never happens, this little thing called “nokia 6610” always comes in the path. I wonder how such a small thing can do so much!

My dad recently read an article on the internet as to how a little girl who kept smsing got her fingers
so swollen that she couldn’t move her hands for three months. My dad, fearing that that might happen to his daughter told her about it. But neither articles nor advices worked, for it’s the same old story even now!

When I asked one of my sister’s juniors why he used sms other than a direct conversation, I was stunned by his answer –“We must make best use of technology”!
(gulp) times have surely changed!

If this is the case now, what will it be like when I enter college? Will I join this groove? Whatever!!

As for now, I’m planning how to prepare myself technically, physically and mentally to protect my sister from this little culprit! ;-)