Pops Be Texting
Somehow I managed to make it through my teenage years without a cell phone.
For the most part I was out of communication with the rest of the world temporarily all the time. Somehow I survived to write this post.
It is different in the world today. Somehow people have found that they simply cannot survive without being on the cell phone.
There is one young man I am acquainted with who has a twin brother. The only way I can tell them apart is that I have NEVER seen the one without a cell phone in his ear. I once made a comment to him about this and he vowed to trick me by not being on the cell phone the next time he came into the store. He almost made it. He came in, got his soft drink and made it to the counter. Then he had to call his girlfriend to find out if she wanted a drink. He gave it a good shot.
It seems to me that the people who spend the most time on the cell phone have the least to say. I have found that when I am in line behind someone in a checkout line, those people who can't stop talking long enough to conduct their business with the cashier are the ones who have conversations like,
"I'm sayin' girl you know that's right, and I'm like all uh uh. then several curse words and back to you know that's right."
Don't get me wrong. I believe in freedom of speech etc. but I have found that these same people have nothing to say to each other when they are physically together.
The cell phone companies don't seem to understand. I don't care if I have 3G, 4G, 100G or whatever. What I want is to have a signal and be able to understand what the party on the other end is saying.
The cell phone counter at my local gorilla store is the worst place in the world that I know of to get a cell. If I want to call from the back of the store I have to walk all the way to the front of the store to do it. Have we gotten to the point that we can't live without communicating.
I think one of the funniest things I have seen was last year when I was sitting in a convenience store and four gang members came in the store.
One of them looked over and saw me texting. He said, "Hey man Pops be texting." His friend spoke up and said, "That's cool man. An old dude like you can text."
I about died laughing. I told them that my generation invented texting. They thought that was cool.
We used to be able to drive down the road and not have to call the office to see what was going on. We used to be able to go to the store and not have to call home a dozen times to check to see what we need. And, you know what, still half the time we forget what we actually went for.
Now we have blackberries and blueberries and ipads and thinkpads and notepads and launchpads and minipads and all kinds of devices to communicate with and still we feel out-of-touch.
Wasn't life more pleasant when we looked forward to getting the mail? Wasn't life a little sweeter when we only had the house phone and could go outside and have some peace from the ringing?
Are we really any better off with e-mail and twitter and ims and chat and everything else?
Oh well Pops still be texting.
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