How to Kick Your CrackBerry Habit
It used to be that we’d take our work home with us. Now, thanks to PDAs, we’re taking it every-where. (You didn’t hear it from us, but a certain editor-in-chief has been known to Treo from the loo.)
“Who, me?”
As with any addiction, the first step is admitting the problem. If you take your PDA to weddings and funerals, if it “feels like a third person in your relationship,” enough already!
Cry uncle
The Sheraton Chicago hotel locks up guests’ PDAs free of charge, a service the general manager initiated after kicking his own habit. At the Mayflower Inn and Spa, in Washington, Connecticut, the only place you get cell phone service is on the putting green, “which makes you look really Stupid,” notes one PDA-addicted friend. Check your device at dinner along with your coat, or ask a friend to hold it. (You’re not really going to plead for it back during the salad course, are you?)
All thumbs
If going cold turkey is too overwhelming, set the instant message function to “unavailable” or turn your wireless capabilities off for a while. See? That wasn’t so bad.