I have never been a fan of cell phones. I happen to now have one. I don't enjoy it, but
I tolerate it because it does so many things.
When cell phones were relatively new, I associated them with rich people.
And with profound rudeness.
In my city the government actually put up signs at ever train station.
It showed a man in a suit with his mouth wide open, yelling into a cell phone.
The caption reads, "Yes, the whole train wants to have to hear about what you're having for dinner tonight"
"Please use some courtesy.
Which, of coursed, did nothing.
Eventually cell phones got cheap. I began exploring new things, meeting new people, and some of these were younger people,
I 'd guess in their twenties.
Something strange would seem to happen. I'd meet people, usually in a group. they would genuinely have a nice time
and seem to like me, and we would exchange email address or whatever.
Every once in a while I'd get very brief texts or emails with these people.
Then, I'd perhaps make a plan for a week or two ahead to do something, and email a few people.
About 90 per cent of the people would just ignore the message.
Not even a form letter like, "I"m swamped at work and won't be answering any messages this week.
Those that did answer usually would not say yes or no.
Those that did say yes would VERY frequently simply never show up. At all, with no message, ever, and
certainly no apology.
What seemed to be happening in our culture is, there is no such thing as respect, no such thing as
commitment, so such thing as loyalty.
What appears now to happen is someone make five dates on the same night, and on that night randomly look around and at that last moment
then you decide where to go and what to do.
Did not matter the gender of the person doing this.
After that, a new thing showed up, in dating. I'd have three or four of what I thought were nice dates,
plenty of texts and emails, then suddenly nothing.
My call isn't blocked, but no one ever picks up. Texts and emails, no answer. At all. Ever.
And this happened A LOT, and I found out that this is considered "normal" now.
You're supposed to use people like toilet paper now? When and how did that happen?
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I tolerate it because it does so many things.
When cell phones were relatively new, I associated them with rich people.
And with profound rudeness.
In my city the government actually put up signs at ever train station.
It showed a man in a suit with his mouth wide open, yelling into a cell phone.
The caption reads, "Yes, the whole train wants to have to hear about what you're having for dinner tonight"
"Please use some courtesy.
Which, of coursed, did nothing.
Eventually cell phones got cheap. I began exploring new things, meeting new people, and some of these were younger people,
I 'd guess in their twenties.
Something strange would seem to happen. I'd meet people, usually in a group. they would genuinely have a nice time
and seem to like me, and we would exchange email address or whatever.
Every once in a while I'd get very brief texts or emails with these people.
Then, I'd perhaps make a plan for a week or two ahead to do something, and email a few people.
About 90 per cent of the people would just ignore the message.
Not even a form letter like, "I"m swamped at work and won't be answering any messages this week.
Those that did answer usually would not say yes or no.
Those that did say yes would VERY frequently simply never show up. At all, with no message, ever, and
certainly no apology.
What seemed to be happening in our culture is, there is no such thing as respect, no such thing as
commitment, so such thing as loyalty.
What appears now to happen is someone make five dates on the same night, and on that night randomly look around and at that last moment
then you decide where to go and what to do.
Did not matter the gender of the person doing this.
After that, a new thing showed up, in dating. I'd have three or four of what I thought were nice dates,
plenty of texts and emails, then suddenly nothing.
My call isn't blocked, but no one ever picks up. Texts and emails, no answer. At all. Ever.
And this happened A LOT, and I found out that this is considered "normal" now.
You're supposed to use people like toilet paper now? When and how did that happen?
,
,
,
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