My phone is 4 years old. At that same age, a human child would begin to understand itself, know what it likes, recognize family, become a person.

[become a person]

 The phone, though, is just a piece of plastic. It's started to break, the camera [takes pictures], [take] randomly taking pictures, video.

This thing is so cool! it has a radio tuner, so I can play my mp3s over YOUR radio. What? YEAH it can play mp3s. It has a slot right here to put in a memory card and...

I named it igor, my lumpy sidekick, new technology. When I bought it I... I felt a gadget bliss. [take] I feared my phone was cooler than me...

It keeps my schedule, tells me when to go to where to go.

[become a person]

[four years old] [new technology]

It has /never/ been /more/ than thirty feet away from me.

[recognize family]

[family]

[four years old]

It doesn't support sdhc    [the]

the battery is going         [eye]

large                             [never]

lumpy                            [sees]

heavy                            [itself:fade]

poor signal.

old.

it's started dropping my calls [never listens]

I think it's time to get a new one

[I hear] t[her]e's a place you can s[end] your old technology. T[he]y recycle it, [give it to] ot[her] people somew[here] else.

###short

waiting for the end to the beginning?

repetition, does it work? make an impact.