Convenience

News flash....things are too convenient. Big surprise, I know, but its true. Cell phones, online check-in, online bill pay, online customer service, automated customer service, 411 and the list can go on. We have forgotten how to deal with people. We send text messages rather than make a phone call. E cards rather than a real card. I wrote in a card the other day for my wife and I started getting writers cramp after the first sentence. Is it bad when the muscles used to grasp a pen and write begin to atrophy?

Remember when you had to call the operator to get information, and they actually gave it back to you in their own voice? Now it's by robot. With the volume of convenience that we are provided, we sure do get impatient. When your cell phone locks up, how often do you say, "COMEEEE ONNNNNNNNNNNN," willing the message or phone call to go through? Forget that the request is being sent into space and has to return. Remember rotary dials on the phone? You get all excited to get a phone number, see two zeros and then frown knowing that calling this person is going to require at least 10 minutes.

I saw an electric pepper gringer at Bed, Bath and Beyond the other day. When did twisting your wrist become such a headache? The small bones in the wrist were made to do that action. Now we are just too lazy to grind, let alone shake the pepper. I bet if there were Bloody Mary's abound, no one would have a hard time shaking the Tobasco bottle....even if it were in the same motion.

If you tore the phone book page on accident, it was a pain in the ass because you had to wait a year to get another one. Now, we get 4 phone books a week, whether we want them or not. ::PLOP::...there it is in a plastic bag. DEX, DORX, DOTZ, and some other company, providing me an unsolicited copy of how people and business should be put together. It is the ultimate tree killer. But we needed them before. Now this service is an inconvenience. Those were the days.

These are just a couple of observations. Definitely a rant....but sometimes it blows me away how convenient we have it, and how impatient we get when the conveniences provided don't quite fit to our standards.