I just watched a customer in our store get off of one phone call he was on and pull another cell phone out of his pocket to pick up another one… Instantly I thought back to my high school days when I thought it was cool to have my pager and Nokia cell phone the size of a brick on me at all times. When I watched him do this I almost put my head down in shame knowing that I had looked just like this at one point. After realizing that this is actually the normal now I started to really put thought to what life would be like without all the advancements in technology. First of all, you probably would not be reading this blog, unless It was printed in the Sunday paper and you surely would not be able to hop on Facebook and see what everyone and their mom is doing for spring break. With the technology has come an entire language of sorts. LOL you are totally my BFF sorry if that is TMI hold on BRB I need some water… And on and on and on. Don’t get me wrong, you can look in my iPhone and I am guilty of the LOL’s and BRB’s but 6 years ago I would have broken my thumbs if I knew I would have been writing this stuff. If you are anything like me and you want to be completely shocked by your electronic use, Look at your phone bill. I Have unlimited text messaging but we looked at the message count and I am honestly unsure as to how it is possible to send upwards of 10,000 texts in a month.
Let me give you my daily electronic run down, I wake up and use my electric toothbrush because it is just way to much strain to run my arm back and forth to brush by hand then I head downstairs to in some cases through something in the microwave for breakfast because waking up 15 minutes early to make real eggs and toast would be asking way too much of myself. Then I round-up my Macbook pro and my iPhone since I would not want to leave without either of those, what if I needed to check my email or make sure that I update my Facebook status from the bathroom at Taco Bell. After getting everything together and heading out to take on my day the electronics awaken, the phone starts ringing with my “good the bad and the ugly” ringtone and have you ever noticed no matter how off the wall your ringtone it never fails that someone near you whips out their phone and stairs at it for a second to see if it was them getting the call or text. I do IT work for a living so I am not saying I am mad about all the electronics and computerization of stuff because it creates job security for me but I would love to strip all electronics out of the hands of everyone for one 24 hour period.. Picture it, I will give you a description of what I think it would be like.
The night before the electronic shutdown you would be sitting on the edge of your bed thinking about what time you have to get up while winding up your alarm clock and then turning off your light by hand, No clappers here. The next morning you would see tons of guys with toilet paper squares stuck to their faces because regular razors don’t squirt lotion on your face. You may even make it to work in the morning without being cut off by the king or queen of “good morning sunshine text messages.” Now imagine this, it is lunch time at work and you offer to go pick up Starbucks for you and a coworker and you get all the way inside and you forgot the piece of paper that has the order on it. Now what, Oh I know, Ill text them… NOPE you have to ask to use a hardwired phone or use the payphone, how embarrassing. Now the fun part comes, you get off work and go home and you actually have to get out of your car and lift your garage door or just park in the driveway and walk the extra 10 feet into the house. What about when you get inside, you remember that TV you just bought that is HD, has WiFi and cooks you dinner all at once. Well instead you have a 13 inch black and white with knobs you have to get up and go turn and for some reason all you can pick up is re-runs of the Andy Griffith show and if your lucky leave it to beaver.. Maybe you can read, you know, a book with pages that you turn instead of swiping your finder across a screen. I guess if you don’t want to do that you may actually end up going outside? Maybe not because the sun might melt us, maybe instead we could write a letter to someone or something, you know what I mean right? A letter, on paper, that white stuff with blue lines on it that you use pencils or pens on. This could go on and on and on, Electronics are everywhere.
I thought this would be interesting to share, think about your electronic use and what your daily life would be like without all the electronics you use. It is just shocking to me the changes and forward progress that has been made in all the different electronic industries in the last decade. Now that I have just gone off the deep end with this no electronic thing, I am going to go make some coffee, download some ringtones and make sure the DVR is recording Sons of Guns. TTYL
Raymond
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