Local man who forgot to bring phone to work doomed to spend day actually working

A local man who forgot to bring his smartphone to work this morning is doomed to spend the day working without checking his social media every 5 minutes.

34-year old Brian O’Malley from Tullamore said his heart filled with dread when he realised what he had done and he slumped into his seat in a state of depression.

After spending the first couple of hours in work subconsciously trying to pick up his phone every few minutes before realising it wasn’t there, Brian eventually stopped doing it and ended up getting through around 800% more work than he would normally.

“Break time was weird.” he told us this afternoon. “I ended up actually speaking to the person beside me. A really sound Polish lad called Marius. I’ve never seen him before but apparently we’ve been sitting at the same canteen table together for four years.”

Brian said that just a few hours without his smartphone has given him a whole new outlook and a fresh lease of life. He also said he’s determined not to go back to his bad habits starting from today.

“I can’t believe I’ve been living like this or getting away with it in work. Every evening when I go home all I’ve done for years is sit on the couch with my head buried in the phone looking at crap, never paying attention to what’s going on around me. I can’t wait to get home later to see if I have a wife and kids. I’m sure there’s always other people there.”