The Phone

It really is amazing.

I saw a clip of a couple of young people dressed as we dressed back in the 1980’s, and they spoke about how life was so much different 4 decades ago.

It was.

The phones have changed our lives. 

What’s weird to me is that the phone seems to go off all at once.

It was between 9 & 9:30 on Wednesday morning when a bulletin must have gone out.

The phone rang (John Mellencamp’s Human Wheels), then there was a chime, a ring, and it vibrated in my hand.

Three or four different people reaching out all at once.

Thought about those kids in the 80’s.

We left the phone home on the wall. 

We never even considered what the phone was doing when we were out and about, and even when we were home, we didn’t even look at the phone much, unless it rang.

Before call waiting we couldn’t even stay on the phone all that long because others might be waiting for a call.

GPS was also a major advancement.

Back in the day, when you were lost, you stayed lost.

If you were following someone and they lost you, they were gone!

You wouldn’t see them until you caught up with them.

I’m not bitching about it because having all the information in the world at your fingertips is incredible, but I got a text, and an email and then the phone rang.

“Hey, I just texted you to tell you I sent you an email.”

Then the guy practically read me the email and asked me if I could lend assistance.

He did everything but shoot off a flare.

Which is the main problem.

Everyone knows that we all have our phones near us at all times so if you ignore a call, or take more than three minutes to respond, they call again to wonder what’s taking you so long to handle their problem.

Would I rather go back to how things were in the 1980’s?

I’m not sure.

But it would certainly be cool to go a couple of weeks not tethered to this damn thing.

The 80’s were fun.