Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Problem With Technology

I'm a paper book girl.  I love turning the actual paper pages, not just touching a screen to continue reading.  Lately though I have been taking my Nook with me to church to cut down on caring around my big scriptures.  Well, I might just be going back to the normal scriptures.  Today as I sat in Relief Society we were asked to go to a scripture to read as a class.  Somehow I hit something on the screen that started the reading feature on my Nook.  In the middle of the teacher bearing her testimony my Nook started to read out John 4:1.  How embarrassing.  It also didn't help that the Bishop happened to be sitting right next to me.  I guess at least I can be thankful that it was a scriptural passage that started to play on my Nook instead of some other application like my "Minions" app.

Sadly this is not the first time that I have been the cause of unneeded commotion in a quiet "spiritual" setting.  The previous experience was even worse.  When I was young and Giga Pets were all the rage.  I had one.  Every couple of days they would have a birthday and the little game would ring out the tune of Happy Birthday.  On one of the occasions when my little giga pet had a birthday I happened to be sitting in the congregation at a funeral.  Yes, a funeral.  Of all the places to have a Happy Birthday tune ring out.

See technology!  Or maybe it is just me and technology.

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