{"id":1168,"date":"2009-10-23T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:48","slug":"thursday-october-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-october-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Legitamate Fears of the 21st Century &#8211; Thursday October 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paul_hogan_as_michael_j_crocodile_dundee-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"paul_hogan_as_michael_j_crocodile_dundee\" title=\"paul_hogan_as_michael_j_crocodile_dundee\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paul_hogan_as_michael_j_crocodile_dundee-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/paul_hogan_as_michael_j_crocodile_dundee.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 85vw, 216px\" \/>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand what I was doing before I got my iPhone.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nHow did I get anywhere without the little GPS?  How did I entertain myself when I had to wait in lines without Scrabble and Solitaire and Tetris and email and You Tube on my phone? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nMore importantly, what will I ever do if I&#8217;m out somewhere and the battery runs out.  Or, God forbid, I lose it?  I think I&#8217;d be wandering around the city, crying and scared until some one picked me up and forced me into sex slavery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nIs this a common fear?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSigned,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m Delicate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\nDear I&#8217;m Delicate,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nWell I can say with certainty that before I had my iPhone I rarely left the house.  I used to have a compass in my car that kept me oriented, but if I had to travel by foot I was terrified.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to learn how to tell time by watching Crocodile Dundee on a continuous loop one weekend, but I ended up just falling in love with Paul Hogan.  To this day there is a court order that prohibits me from calling or sending any packages to his home.  That&#8217;s unfortunate because I think that Paul, or &#8220;Croc&#8221; as I call him, and I would be the greatest of lovers and friends.  We&#8217;d have that kind of relationship where you just feel like you can&#8217;t even breath with the other person  I had a bidet installed in my apartment so that if he ever does come over, he&#8217;ll have a place to wash his socks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nYour fears about sobbing in public and being sold into sex slavery are very common, and very real.  I know they&#8217;re real because I live across the street from where Dick&#8217;s Last Resort used to be.  Every Friday and Saturday night I get asked where Dick&#8217;s relocated and I can just tell it&#8217;s code name for something really scary.  Because no one in their right mind actually wants to go to that restaurant\/bar, and you know it.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, &nbsp; I just don&#8217;t understand what I was doing before I got my iPhone. &nbsp; How did I get anywhere without the little GPS? How did I entertain myself when I had to wait in lines without Scrabble and Solitaire and Tetris and email and You Tube on my phone? &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-october-22nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Addressing Legitamate Fears of the 21st Century &#8211; Thursday October 22nd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}