I am usually a champion cheerleader for technology. I realise that the world is being bettered on a daily basis with new breakthrough's in many fields. Medicine, industry, transportation just to name a few. I happily sit here at my laptop every day and check up on the lives of all my family and friends around the world. When I am done with that, I will enjoy my big screen tv, my X Box 360, Netflix, etc.....without as much as a second thought to how they get to me or how they work.
The only modern technology that I seem to have a problem with, the God forsaken Cell Phone. Yes, I said it, Godforsaken.
I started driving a semi for a living fifteen years ago, before these damned things became so widely popular. I drove thousands of miles around the country, far away from home and loved ones. Once a day, I would find a payphone and call home. If my wife needed me in an emergency, she would call my company and within ten minutes I would get the message and find a phone to call her.
In those days, NO ONE had ever lost their lives because some moron was texting going down the interstate at eighty, or looking at a phone to see who was calling instead of watching the road, or looking at a phone to dial a number.
Since those days, that we all somehow miraculously survived, countless thousands have been killed as a direct result of using a cell phone whilst driving.
In our every day lives they intrude on everything. Good manners have been thrown out of existence due to these devises. How many times have you been in line at a store or bank when the person being served is more interested in the damned Oh so important conversation on the phone, than taking care of the business at hand.
You can be in the middle of a one on one conversation with someone and they will bump you if their damned phone rings. How rude and ignorant is that?
I have no doubt that every single person reading this has been ignored at one time or another in deference to a phone call.
I will walk away from people when this happens and not bother my time with them again. If your stupid phone call is more important than our conversation then screw you.
I see commercials on the tv for the new ATT 4 G smart phone which drive me insane. Is it really that important that you get your message 17 seconds before anyone else? really people, is it? Yet people will put their family budget at jeopardy and pay the hundreds of dollars a month for this service.
It is sickening to think that a recent article I read is oh too true. A young single mother let her child go hungry because she spent her welfare money on re-connecting her damned phone service so she could talk and text her friends and tell them how tough her life was. OMFG are you KIDDING ME!!!!!?
Do they build something into these devices that fry the common sense part of the brain? I believe they do.
The average family spends close to $150.00 or more each month so they can each have a cell phone. This used to cost less than $30.00 a month for a house phone and about fifty cents to make a call from a payphone. Cheaper if you had a calling card. No wonder the worlds economy is taking a shit, our priorities are all messed up.
On New Years Eve, I was at a friends house to celebrate. Of six people there, I was the only one without a cell phone sitting on the table being checked for text's every few minutes. This is a sad state of affairs people.
I know each of you reading this probably has one of these things permanently attached to you at all times so I guess its too late to change things. But, mark my words, they will be the cause of the downfall of society eventually.
Until the next time,
a fond farewell.
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