New ways to show you’ve arrived
Welcome to the world of Web 2.0; what on earth do telephone operators do, now that people no longer try to place person-to-person calls to themselves to indicate arrival status?
In the modern, always on, .net world, you place your travel status on your Twitter, or your Facebook, or by a text message sent to all and sundry. Instantaneous. No need to find a phone booth that didn’t require your life savings in small change to try and get word through to the rest of the clan. Somehow, you knew that the phone company had already detected your fraudulent bent and the inspectors were already calculating the length of your incarceration (where you would only have one call).
I just answered someone else’s cell (as the coach yelled out instructions that the TALK button was THE button). Two brothers, trying to cross paths in a crowd, except that the younger had left the phone on charge mode, rendering it useless in context. What could I say? The call wasn’t for me (or about me), and another minute of air time has been wasted. Oh well, at least I’ve learned how to answer the thing, in case there’s ever a real need. I may be the last person in my kingdom to be without a three year contract for my soul.
The dog led us around the neighbourhood this evening, on her best behavior. I think it’s a ploy to get us outside. We noticed that the dandelion crop is invisible this year, now that the lawn care companies no longer are allowed to “treat against the yellow scourge”. Further proof that they were secretly seeding the stuff to keep the business cycle in high gear.
