Life in a taxi firm is rarely dull (although there are days when I will strong disagree with this). There is always something for me to laugh at or be stressed out with. Today... I've been stressed out.
& why? BECAUSE OF PHONES!!!
In a taxi company it's kind of necessary to have telephones so that people can phone up and we could take the bookings.
So today when the phones started messing about... We'd be half way through the bookings with passengers and the phones would go dead. We'd try to ring up drivers & passengers but the calls wouldn't go through. Then passengers would struggle to get hold of us. Yes... when phones don't work... it sucks.
So I started thinking, as I do, about a world without phones. Imagine that.
How would teenage girls be able to gossip one another in the privacy of their own bedrooms?
How would cowardly guys be able to break up with girls?
How would businessmen be able to organize meetings?
How would foreign salesmen be able to contact us while we're in the middle of dinner? (now that one isn't such a bad thing)
How would we order pizza?
A world without phones... is chaos.
Perhaps we rely too much on them. Sure we rely on all forms of technology from the Smoke Alarm to the Car CD Player (seriously imagine driving for an hour without any music... How rubbish would that be?) But a phone is how we all stay united. Otherwise we just feel so alone.
Hmm... Alone... Perhaps having a phone is more a self esteem sort of thing. So we can stay in contact with other people & they can make us feel good. If that was true for EVERYONE in the whole world then isn't it a bit depressing? That's probably a harsh thing to say.
I am obsessed with my phone. Yes I like to use it to remind myself that I have friends. Yes I like to use it's internet settings while I'm on the go. & yes I like to use it to phone my girlfriend while she's busy doing something else just to annoy her. So yes I could not live without my phone.
If the satelites & phone lines got destroyed in some Alien Invasion... Yes I would cry. Who wouldn't?
But seriously people... aren't phones the most wonderful & annoying things we love in the world?
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