Ever go an entire day without getting an email? It’s those days you begin to question whether or not you are still connected to the world. Some of us, not mentioning any names, have multiple email accounts, some of which go directly to our Blackberrys. So after a few hours of not hearing the Blackberry Buzz one has to wonder if the sucker is working properly. A progression of tasks follow: check connection on phone – good. See if email accounts are still connected – good. Email yourself and see if it goes through – ah, good? What the hell? Where is everyone? How often is it that my people don’t have something to say or comment about? Almost never. I have even suffered from a mini nervous breakdown when a friend took two days to respond to an email. As it turned out she went out of town for a couple of days and neglected to inform everyone via the multiple ‘status’ methods we all have become so dependant on. Remember back in the day when all we had was an answering machine and you had to leave a message in order to let someone know you were looking for them? Wow. Glad that’s over. That almost rates as bad as actually getting up out of your seat to change the channel on the tv. Wait – is that why we are all getting fat? I digress….
Is it time to lobby to have the missing persons time changed from 24 hours to a couple of hours? Could you just see it: walking into a police station to file a missing persons claim because your pal has not emailed you back in the required two hour window? Seriously, there HAS to be something sinister going on? Don't ya think?
