To the casual observer, Brian and Sheila Davis appear to be the perfect happily married couple – and thankfully these days, those observers would be right.
But up until recently the story had been quite different for the pair, most notably in the dark days of the marriage before Brian and Sheila discovered the I-phone.
Until the I-phone came into their lives, the couple - married for the past 25 years and with 2 grown up children – had been leading a full but somewhat antiquated lifestyle. The couple often found themselves holding conversations, sharing their thoughts, revealing their hopes and inner most dreams, regularly coming up with completely original ideas of their own. The couple would spend hours discussing world affairs, talking about the banking crisis and EU economic policy, almost inevitably arriving at their own unbiased, uninfluenced conclusions. There were times when the two held completely different views from one another and their exchanges could become quite heated. It was not unknown for Brian to let slip the odd profanity.
But that was before Brian and Sheila discovered the I-phone and their lives changed forever. Years of carefully crafted interactive behaviour and marital harmony were swept away, virtually overnight. Now instead of exercising their hearts and minds throughout the course of a day, the couple from Basingstoke can be found exercising their thumbs.
Nowadays, the couple spend every waking moment with their faces buried inside their hand held gadget, no longer constrained by the old social pressures of conversation and contemplation that occupied their previous existence. Gone is the old compulsion to exchange niceties, gone is the need to engage in pleasantries, gone is the need to form opinions or make informed decisions of their own. For them it is no longer necessary to talk about the weather- indeed, why would they bother when even the forecast for weather changes on planet Jupiter is their at your fingertips. Today Brian and Sheila barely have time to look up from their gadgets and both agree they find it increasingly difficult to fit in the maximum hours of gaming their I-phones can provide. Although the couple only allow themselves 3-4 hours sleep each night they say juggling their important web browsing activities and keeping abreast of 24 hour rolling news has become near impossible.
At one time, the couple had indulged in something referred to as ‘a life’....but Brian and Sheila insist that has gone now and the I-phone has more than replaced their old way of ‘doing things’.
The couple insist they would be completely lost without the I-phone, citing their recent holiday abroad as a prime example of just how the handy little gadget has helped revolutionise their lives. A trip to the Australian outback was made so much easier for them – when - having reached Ayres Rock late one afternoon they found no actual need or desire to step out of their air-conditioned jeep to see the spectacle for themselves as all the images and relevant information was available to download at the press of a button on their keypad.
Earlier this year Sheila managed to trace the sister she had not seen in 43 years by use of a simple web search on her I-phone. Amazingly her sister lived just 5 doors away in the same street and now they text each other once a week and have promised that one day – when they both have time - they would meet up and fill in the missing years. Although Brian did point out to Sheila that she could quite easily do that by logging online with the I-phone.
As of last week Brian and Sheila have no plans to leave Basingstoke
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