Today I joined the Future
I did the unthinkable today- I missed my bus home. No big deal if I was still 15 and didn't mind walking 7 freakin miles home... in high heeled boots. Now that I am 32? I freakin mind.
Naturally I ignored my mothers advice to always keep phone money in my wallet and had no one to call anyway. After a day processing order numbers, requisitions, and purchase orders I couldn't think of Queen Nick's cell number if I had a gun to my head. I was stranded. I was stranded at a really nice mall but I was still stranded...
Three hours of standing around the mall, hoping that Nick got the message when a salesclerk took pity and let me use their phone... I got sick of it. I marched over to a kiosk and bought a damn cell phone. Sprint Fair and Flexible, no whistles or geegaws. I can't play games on it or take pictures. It's a straight forward simple phone.
Except that it's candy pink.
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My mother recently bought a laptop. It's way too big and far more powerful than she will ever need- I got so tired of her calling me to find out how to turn it on I offered to pay her way through a community ed computer class for seniors. She went to the classes and she choose to go online with it using... AOL. Amazing. The damn thing has a 64 Athalon in it with a widescreen and she is using AOL.
I was forwarded a joke about a new AOL user. I laughed and giggled and chuckled at the usenet referances and alt. postings. I thought it was great and forwarded it to my daughter, a 15 year old who set up Gramma's computer in about 15 minutes. She emailed me back and I opened it up expecting her to be laughing with me...
Instead she asked me what the heck USENET was...
Damn.
Naturally I ignored my mothers advice to always keep phone money in my wallet and had no one to call anyway. After a day processing order numbers, requisitions, and purchase orders I couldn't think of Queen Nick's cell number if I had a gun to my head. I was stranded. I was stranded at a really nice mall but I was still stranded...
Three hours of standing around the mall, hoping that Nick got the message when a salesclerk took pity and let me use their phone... I got sick of it. I marched over to a kiosk and bought a damn cell phone. Sprint Fair and Flexible, no whistles or geegaws. I can't play games on it or take pictures. It's a straight forward simple phone.
Except that it's candy pink.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My mother recently bought a laptop. It's way too big and far more powerful than she will ever need- I got so tired of her calling me to find out how to turn it on I offered to pay her way through a community ed computer class for seniors. She went to the classes and she choose to go online with it using... AOL. Amazing. The damn thing has a 64 Athalon in it with a widescreen and she is using AOL.
I was forwarded a joke about a new AOL user. I laughed and giggled and chuckled at the usenet referances and alt. postings. I thought it was great and forwarded it to my daughter, a 15 year old who set up Gramma's computer in about 15 minutes. She emailed me back and I opened it up expecting her to be laughing with me...
Instead she asked me what the heck USENET was...
Damn.