Don’t Know Your Girlfriend’s Cell Phone Number? You Might Get Dumped

Who cares how technology isaffecting our brains . Is engineering making it easier for us be dumped by our girlfriends ? The New York Times today excuse how a guy ’s innovative cellphone phone technology indirectly got him dump .

The articleis about the general phenomenon of citizenry not know even their closest acquaintances ’ phone numbers . These mean solar day , everyone just puts a number in their smartphone and stabs at the screen when they want to make a call . Beware : This can lead to you being dumped , as in the case of 21 - year - sure-enough Travis Erickson .

One day , Erickson got stranded at the beach without his cubicle phone . But he could n’t call his girl of a twelvemonth , because he did n’t bed her number . After a while , Erickson resorted to a despairing measure , according to the Times :

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Stuck at the beach , Mr. Erickson was forced to call a different identification number he did remember : that of an ex - girlfriend from that distant geological era when state business line and even pagers dominate the day . She was friends with his current fancy man and render her number .

Picking him up at the shoring , his lady friend was not happy . “ I told her that I really had no motivation to memorize it because I always had it , ” he said . “ She was still upset . ” They broke up two hebdomad after .

Travis Erickson now drift the countryside with nothing but a rotary phone and a piece of charcoal grey with which he scratch earphone numbers onto a piece of music of tanned hide .

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