Electric Life 2.0

Well hello been so busy haven’t gotten to write in R W & R for awhile(put up a couple dysu posts & started posting my completed novel in sections in same). But today was one of those super busy days flying 80 mph (literally at times) and a subject came up in my head that I thought was worthy post material…

Now a days we have all these gizmos, high tech gadgets that our supposed to make our lives easier, save time, facilitate life’s transitional moments. Many, most in fact, often do work this way, some are extremely helpful, some are also at times stunningly inefficient and a source of extreme ‘second wasting’ annoyance.

We all are busy these days what with, work, family, hobbies, friends, xtra activities. Spare time, (that is time to waste) is at a minimum. In my job this can become particularly obvious.

Being a delivery driver I use my cell phone a lot. I love the lil thing, can’t imagine how we got along without it. When I pull up to make my drop off I call the customer, here’s where my love of this technology can quickly become a Bobby Brown kind’a love, a Mel Gibson kind’a love…I dial the number and

You have reached 605 555-5150 if you would like to leave a message wait for the beep, to send an instant page press one…bla bla bla, this message goes on for about forty five seconds. All I wanna say is ‘yer sandwich is here’. That’s less than a second, yet every time I gotta sit and listen to the same b.s..

And who are these people who still need instructions when it comes to how to leave a voice mail?…Maybe in the 80’s but um..excuse me Verizon this is 2012. Aren’t these supposed to be smart phones?

It’s like if very time I went to the grocery store the checker greeted me and said…’okay here’s what we’re going to do, you start putting the items from your cart onto the check stand, I will take each item and individually scan it using…’

Okay first I'm gonna say welcome to our grocery store...'Welcome to our grocery store'. Next...

You’d be like ‘B I know what a damn register does’…

But no I gotta hear it every time..okay not every time, some times I get to hear music first..

Listen I work for a company where I am supposed to be moving ‘freaky fast’, my customers expect it of me, is it wrong of me to expect it from my phone?

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