I seem to watch, nowadays, police, fire or medical dramas; these shows have more time to explore plots, catch killers, find cures etc…

I’m not into modern sitcoms, which have lots of quick laughs that O can’t catch.

Anyways…

Have you noticed, the mobile device edition.

• …that opening a cell phone or tablet is very simple, very quick, with no password or face recognition needed. On a police-operated device? Come on!
• …when a photo, video or message is needed to incriminate a perp, it is found instantly without scrolling thru thousands of images! The exact photo is right there, as if it were the device’s wallpaper. This is laughable because we’ve all scrolled for 10 minutes looking for a suitable picture of three people standing on a wharf on a lake, or something like that.
• …when calling someone, characters “dial” that person’s number perfectly, no mistakes or misdials. True, a close relative might be on “speed dial,” but when calling a different number, it’s always done with skill and smoothness that is almost unheard of!
• …that “blocking” a number seems to be an unused tactic. I watched an entire show featuring a guy getting calls from a person he didn’t want to talk to, so why didn’t he simply block the number? Then the show would continue without these interruptions!
• …that NOT one person in modern television history has every dropped their mobile device, even when highly inebriated.
• …that, aside from some comic moments, NOT one show has spent time showcasing characters frantically looking for their lost device…
• …that a phone can break, glass shattered, after being dropped on concrete or into a hedge, and once the glass has been shattered, the device is now inoperative. I tell you, bullshit! This would only happen if the battery was at 1%. Fact: my son was using two different iPhones for a total of more than 18 months, both had cracked screens, damaged pixels with big blobs of unviewable screen areas! Yet he could still text me or call his mom.

All these tech errors are so very weird, and not matching modern devices!

Show me a character who dropped his phone, who lost her phone in the house, who struggles for seven minutes looking for a picture of Aunt Virginia in Toronto, of smoothly opening a device. Show me that, and I’ll show you my new book!

Thanks for reading!