⌛ Family Communication.

Now! bearing in Mind I am 10.000 miles away, 6 hours time difference, I find this very ammusing. As usual on a Saturday morning, Azon and Trisha went to town, they came across some Family members in Lee Plaza, Trisha wanted to stay in Town with her 2 Cousins, As she was out with her mama, she did not take her mobile. Azon told her to have hers and to ring or text when she was ready to be picked up. ALAS, Azon could not locate the monsters Phone at home. She contaced me on Skype as I was up, getting ready for work, I then rang the monsters phone and there it was, under her pillow, OK so far so good, Now Azon tells me she cant ring trisha, as she does not know how to operate this particular Phone. Ooooooops I say to her, So! I telephone trisha, Ask her to ring Azon and tell her how it works. Here I am, on line to Azon on Yahoo messenger, I have Trisha on the Phone to me, on my mobile, as she can't Remember her own Number. After we have done this, I am now talking to Azon on YM and Trisha then rings me (in Spain) to, ask if I will tell her mama, she is ready to be picked up.
What did we ever do before the Internet and Mobile Phones?:D
Of course, it was Azons load being eaten away.:p Clever Kid I got.


Jack P.

 

Too funny! So.......you are now the international cell phone operator for the Philippines? :D

 

you guys really make things complicated somehow. Well who I am to judge, I told my 2 little one that the day they can explain me why they need a cell AND they can afford a cell they can have one.

now, if they go downtown they have a couple of peso for emergency calls. They just ask people to send a text from theirs or go to a place we know to call our landline.

Anyway, can't she just jump in a easyride and go home ?

No offense Jack, but if somebody can be alone (with 2 friends) in town, has facebook, cellphone etc, remembers probably each lousy pop artist and song but not the own number or where a terminal is some priorities are set wrong.

 

at least u had a good laugh about it, jack. cell phones are a powerful communication tool but sometimes they can make things a bit complicated. mine drives me neurotic :D i hate always having to check if it's still with me or if i'd dropped it somewhere so sometimes i don't bring it when i know i'd only be away from home for a short while.

 

it is remarkable how modern communications has changed this world and our relationship to it. What is interesting to me is how impatient we have become, demanding instant gratification in terms of contact. We will send an email and be disappointed if there is no reply within a day or so or ring someone's cell on the other side of the world for a chat. In the early 80s I met a lady in Thailand. We developed a relationship through the mail and eventually we married. The thing is it would take over three weeks for a letter of mine to reach her or hers to me so that was nearly a two month lag in communication between us. Can you even imagine sending an email and then waiting two months for a reply? We did it but I can no longer remember how we did it, that age is so far in the past now...

 

Ha Ha Funny!

Seems that way, OUR monster will do things, NOT to spend her own Money,
Did make me Smile though!:D

Jack P.

 

Well Rhoody, That's My Spoiled daughter for you,
Fun Loving, Resourceful, Energetic, Respectful and very COSTLY! but we love her to Bits


Jack P.

 

True love story......( still with her?)
Everything comes to he who waits or was it Loneliness makes the heart grow fonder ........regards JB

 

Nope but we are still very good friends, in fact I just talked to her the other day. We were not suited, she was the classic immigrant story, wanted to settle down and get to work and I more interested in wandering around, really didn't want to be married. I tell you though never have met anybody as hard working as her, unbelievable...

I guess you can look at it as being romantic but I just remember it as how you did things then. Thinking back on it some more the deal is your always getting letters. We would write each other on a steady basis so they were always coming but they would not be related to each other. It wasn't that we felt we had difficulty communicating but it was a completely different type of communication. But you know I think you could call it more romantic because it was more along the lines of creative writing than just chatting back and forth. That in fact is what we have lost with our modern conveniences. Interesting, I never really considered it in that aspect but that is what give old letters their continuing appeal. Just the other day I heard a presenter reading excerpts from letters of a civil war soldier to his wife, just some remarkable writing and yes extremely romantic in a tragic sense. Somehow I doubt emails are going to be held in the same high regard hundreds of years from now

 

Bounty98, Modern Communication has a lot to answer for!
As I just read my E-mail (your reply) there are two other people in the room who have not spoken in 30 minutes, due to their intense interest in "playing" with their iphones!
It's sure a crazy world! Give me the 60's anytime.