Monday, 11 December 2006

run to the hills

my phone has a torch in it (thanks Sony!) which is sometimes useful. I first used it trying to read a bus timetable in the alps. It was night-time so that was appropriate. I noticed it had several settings - On, On for a Minute and SOS. How useful, I thought, and gazed up at the looming mass of mountain silhouetted in the darkness. Imagining myself alone and freezing on the hillside, huddling up to myself for warmth and clutching my only hope for survival - my freezing fingers needing not the dexterity to tap out the message, nor my mind the clarity to remember it. Sony would keep me provided for on my lonely vigil up there on the mountainside until such time as I remembered I was holding a phone.