Technology is a Wonderful Thing...Until it Isn't!
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Good one! Yes, it’s great until. . . OYE!!! Isn’t it amazing how frustrated we get when the #*$&#&$)(@#* things don’t work? I remember my first computer way back in 1985. It took like five minutes to do anything and I was fascinated. I would sit there watching this amazing marvel grind, snort and click, in eager anticipation of the wonderful thing that would {{{soon}}} appear on my screen. Now if it doesn’t appear in a half a nanosecond, I’m calling this poor old laptop things I have to repent for. :)
We are all spoiled by technology. Oh, some of us old folks think we’re not, but. . . here’s the test. Check your mood when your e-mail goes down for a day or more (GASP, HORROR, SHOCK!!!). If there’s anyone left in your house alive or not severely maimed, hey, you’re not a spoiled technobrat!!! Sadly, I failed. . .
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Great tips – it has happened to all of us – at one time or another! My cable used to just “cut out” for no reason at all – this took my computer and my land line phone – so I couldn’t get messages for my home music business for one or two days at a time sometimes. Comcast FINALLY got the problem fixed and it’s literally been months since we’ve had an issue – but it used to be so frustrating!!!!
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In today’s techno society we rely upon technology for so much that when it has a snafoo, it is a huge problem.
For example, my first car didn’t have power anything! Though things were more difficult to use back then, they did work and even when the car was off. You could roll the windows up and down, turn the steering wheel, stop the car even if the car was off. In stark contrast, my next car had power windows, power steering, power brakes, etc. So one day my engine died in the middle of a sharp turn around a street corner. I couldn’t steer the car at all and the brakes were useless as I drifted into the opposite lane of traffic slowing to stop just as I was coming up on the neighbor’s curb while literally STANDING on the brake!
It’s not a matter of being spoiled as much as the fact that things simply don’t work without the technology with which they were designed in order to make our lives EASIER! LOL