Since when did the computer take over as the new preferred communications medium? When did it become policy to text information rather than simply call the person? When did it become more important to tap tap tap away on your keyboard rather than pay attention to what's going on around you?
So many times my beautiful and talented spouse has texted me a question, came home, and asked for an answer to a question I never recieved. "Don't you check your texts?" is asked to me. Well, considering the pants I wore yesterday still contain my cell-phone and are hap-hazardly lumped on the floor of our bedroom, I'd say no. Is it normal now to carry your cell at all times? If so, Verizon should get off their lazy butts and create a waterproof phone. Never know when I might recieve critical information while I'm washing whats left of my hair.
Oh great and glorious computer! Perveyor of the Facebook and Twitter. Thou art the bringer of vital news and jaywalkers being socked in the face. Why, then, must we pay attentioin to this cruel world around us which lacks a 'post' button! Cruelty! Cruelty is this reality thing that will not update me when my friend in Chicago finds a butterfly that looks like Elvis, or when Tom in Cleveland finds a club that's 'off the hizzle.' I propose to you, oh wise collection of circuits and processors, that you be the one to dictate my day to day operations so I may shut out everything that the harshness of life brings. Therefore, I must go. Jenny posted a pic of her ugly dog on Myspace and said I must check it out, and just now something flashed on the screen offering 20% off something called Extenze. Hmm.... looks like my day is planned!
But if you checked your texts rather than question the validity in technology dictating our every move your life would be much simpler! ;-) Perhaps one of these days I shall just call you on the home phone rather than text... and perhaps someday soon we will be overrun by Morlocs.....
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