“Yo dog, what’s going on man?”

“Not too much dude, what about you?  What did you do this weekend?

“Oh you know.  I put up some Obama ’08 bumper stickers, I took my Prius in to get the brakes fixed, I updated my blog…and uh… oh check it out kid, I got the new iPhone!!!”

“Oh sweet, you got that.  Good for you.  So, so you really didn’t do any of those things that you said you did this weekend, did you?

“LOL, no.  I was waiting in line the whole time.  I was just trying to give you some dramatic pause… you know for effect.”

“Oh, I see.  Did you just say ‘LOL’ out loud?”

“Ha ha yeah, it’s a joke.  It’s like a Mac thing that people are doing now.  I read about it on Daring Fireball this weekend.  I can show you it on my phone if you want!”

“Oh.  No.  That’s ok.  Umm, do you want to get something to eat?”

“Wait check it out man look at how cool this is.”

“Oh yeah, it’s like just the commercial.  Cool, let’s go grab a turkey burger or something… I’m starving!”

“Seriously man, I already loaded my playlist onto it and so right now I am listening to Joshua Tree.  Epic.  Epic album.  And so now I have it on me all the time.  Now, check out how easy it is to switch between all the different features.”

“Yeah.  I mean.  Like it’s a neat toy.  Let’s go.”

“Wait, watch how easy it is to get to my Gmail, or my Blogger account, or Perez Hilton.”

“You really just don’t want to get something to eat because you don’t have any money after spending $700 this weekend.  Right?”

“Well I mean I need to chill with money for the next few weeks … but you say the $700 thing like it’s a real bad thing.  I mean it is totally worth every penny.”

“Worth it how?”

“I can surf the internet everywhere”

“You sit at a computer in your cubicle 50 hours per week.  You sit next to me.”

“I can listen to all of my music.  All of my U2.”

“You already own an iPod and an iPod nano."

“Well it’s all together in one phone now, and I can check my email very easily.” 

“Dude, you are an executive assistant at a marketing firm.  No one is emailing you on the weekends.”

(Silence)

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…”

“My parents paid for it.”

“Oh”

(Silence)

“OK, I’m going to get a pizza, I’ll talk with you soon.”

“Hey I’ll put in the order for you online!  You can thank me later.”