Life's Little Observations

Is it me or what? I have spent so much time in front of the computer over the last 10 years that the lines of reality have become blurred. For instance, if I have any type of question, I immediately go to Google. Google knows everything and everybody. If Google doesn’t know, it knows where to send me to get the answer to my question. As Martha Stewart would say, “that’s a good thing.”

Here’s where my problem comes in. The phone rings. Why do I look for an icon on my desktop to answer the phone? When I’m finished the call, I can’t find the logout button. Heaven forbid someone on the other end of the line is on a cell phone and goes into a bad cell resulting in a dropped call. I swing right into troubleshooting mode. I begin by checking to make sure the headset is connected properly. Do I press the * , # and mute buttons to reboot the phone? Then I ask myself “what type of connection do I have?” Cable, DSL, duh, it’s a phone connection stupid, dial up at that.

I’m hungry now so I head to the refrigerator. Why is it that whatever I want is always in the back on the bottom shelf? My solution, I grab the refrigerator handle and try to click and drag the pickles to the front of the top shelf.

Here’s where I know things are getting bad. I’m involved in a conversation with someone and he is compelled to describe every itzy bitzy teeny weenie detail of his experience. In the days before computers, I would have said something like “what happened next” to gently push towards the end of the story. Now, I look for the “scroll bar” to scroll down to get to the end of the conversation.

Maybe I need a vacation. But first I have to go online to make reservations.

Argggghhhhhh, BSOD (Blue Screen of Death.)

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The old joke says if you don't go to college, learn to say "do you want fries with that?" Some of the kids working today in these so called "fast food" places fail to use common sense. As an aside, why do they call them fast food places when they are only half-fast? Anyway, even with a high school diploma, these people don't use common sense. I took my daughter through the drive through of one of these fast food places. We ordered a crispy chicken "with just lettuce." The person at the end of the clown's mouth was barely understandable so I asked if she understood the order. She repeated it to me but I swear she repeated it in the language that they use on planet Zoron. So I repeated it and she acknowledged that she understood what I said.

I drove up to the next window and received my order from a person who looked like he had been manning that window for the past 36 hours. Feeling uneasy, I pulled into a parking space and decided to look at the order to make sure it was correct. I had the soft drink in my hand, so I knew I had that. I opened the bag and saw the french fries. Reaching below the fries I felt the sandwich. As I was ready to leave the premises, a voice inside my head begged me to make sure the sandwich was prepared accurately. I asked my daughter to look at the sandwich to make sure the order met with her satisfaction. Upon unwrapping the sandwich, we were amazed at what confronted us. Crispy chicken with "just lettuce", no mayo, no tomato, no onion and NO CHICKEN, just lettuce!

Is it really out of the realm of common sense to put a piece of chicken on a chicken sandwich? Do you want fries with that? How about just a dollop of common sense.

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