HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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We have these idiotic new electronic phones at work which, if you wait more than two seconds between dialing a digit of the number you're trying to call, will cut you off and go back to dial tone. Given the fact that we often have to dial ten stupid digits now, and given the fact that my vision seems to be deteriorating by the day, it sometimes takes me more than two seconds to figure out what the next number I need to dial is. Technology has no consideration for the fact that people age.
We've had required 10-digit dialing for almost 20 years now. There's a whole generation that looks at you funny when you say say "back in my day, you only had to dial seven digits..." I don't have the enthusiam to tell them I remember 4-digit dialing in some places. Kind of like the kid at the coffee counter this morning...we got to talking about the NBA Finals game last night and LeBron James when I mentioned Michael Jordan. He said "yeah, that was before my time." I might as well have been talking about Willis Reed in 1970. A punch to the gut.