Great, one more piece of tech people can whip out of their pocket or purse every thirty seconds. But this is not done to check out a great video on the web or search for a good recipe for chicken. It is to see if you got a phone call. It vibrates, it rings, yet if you don’t physically look at the phone you might miss a call.

Apparently, we all believe our eyes have the magical ability to make people call you just by staring at your cell phone screen, like some kind of hypnotic power. You are getting sleepy, very sleepy. Then your Razr rings and wakes you up. The phone Matrix has you man.

So is it safe to say we have a cell phone addiction? I guess that is like saying managed health care isn’t quite health insurance, or that Michael Jordan was a pretty good basketball player.

Imagine if we acted this way twenty years ago. There you are at home, lifting up your landline rotary phone receiver and saying “hello”. It didn’t ring but you pick it up on the premise that someone might be calling at that very moment. You repeat this behavior every minute or so all day long.

See how silly this is? You look like a mental patient. But doing this today in the middle of a supermarket is alright. The other day while grocery shopping I watched someone repeatedly check their phone while waiting in line. No one looked at her and wondered what mental hospital gave this woman a one-way ticket to my home state.

It is even to the point where we say screw the handset we want an ear piece instead. Now even more people look like they are crazy until you see the little thing with the blinking blue light on the side of their head. At least before I could tell they were on the phone.

They might as well make phones that we can implant into our hands, put the receiver on our second and third finger, and embed the microphone in our lower palm. Then you can look like your either bored, thinking, or both.

Or crazy.

Cell phones have taken us part of the way there, might as well go for the coup de grace. That’s French for we surrender and in this case we are giving into our Chocolates and Motos and always wanting to know “where you at dawg?” They got us man, and we will end up selling our kids and our clothes for a tech fix.

They are coming for you Neo and I don’t know what they are going to do.