My 2 Things I NEED
Whenever my husband Mike asks me the question, “If you were able to bring just two things from the present into the past, what would it be and why?” I would have my iPod and my Mac in mind. He would answer, “Ashley, you probably would be mistaken for a spy if you did.”
I don’t care. The two gadgets I couldn’t possibly do without are my iPod and my Mac laptop. I have very little else in the world to care to learn but what is the latest music and what my friends and family are doing on the other side of the world.
You see I have well travelled friends and my parents only had one child. I think I will repeat that trend since Mike and I have been married for three years and we still haven’t given them any grandchildren. My family and my friends love to send me pictures of the places they have been in the hope of enticing me to come with. But the problem is that I am afraid of flying. It takes Mike’s rockhard patience to fly with me over water. So being online on my laptop makes me experience their adventure right here on dry solid land.
As for my iPod, it has been my constant companion when there are slow hours at the McDonald’s branch that I work in as a manager. But it also soothes my tired mind when Mike drives me back home.
So wherever you might take me, under the pain of having to ride a plane, the comfort that I have them in my person is all that I have.
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