My Watch Almost Gave Me A Heart Attack Here In Mandan

This is what I was afraid of the very first time I fell last winter

Look, all I'm going to say is, think long and hard if you are still living in the past and are thinking about buying one of these state-of-the-art smartwatches ( they are way too smart for me ). After I got over the initial thrill of talking to someone on the phone through my watch, I quickly went back to the good old-fashioned way, you know, talking ON THE PHONE.

Of course, my watch had all the latest bells and whistles

That's right, I heard different sounds for different things - like if I received a work e-mail, or if someone sent me a Facebook message - my watch kept me up to date on pretty much everything. One day last winter, I did one of those classic cartoon flops ( slipped on some ice ) and landed flat on my back, and that's when my watch took action, notifying me immediately of my fall. When I realized the sudden collapse I just experienced, I quickly denied my watch - and got back on my feet.

"It looks like you've taken a hard fall...."

So I have had that message hit me a couple of times in the past, and all I've had to do was just calmly hit the "No" button, as if to say "No thank you, I don't need an emergency vehicle to come rescue me." Today I accidentally hit my left arm against our Walleye studio, and this triggered another "It looks like you've taken a hard fall...." - once again, I quickly hit the "NO" button, and this time, though, the watch ignored my command. I kept tapping at it, and eventually took my watch off, and still it kept asking me IF I needed help.......and then the 20-second countdown began, and I almost had a heart attack, imagining 911 contacted, and then some sort of emergency vehicle sent over to our building.

I'm ok; the watch is ok

Let me just say this: I'm not one of those people who scorn modern-day technology; I think it's pretty amazing that a watch can save a person's life.