Those were the Days

We are having a crisis of epic proportions over here. We’ve had no internet for almost a week. I know right? And you thought you had problems. Our peaceful, blissful existence has been upturned by this catostrophic turn of events. No blogging. No instagram. No Facebook. NO NETFLIX.

This is pretty much all we’ve talked about all week. We’ve had to turn the wifi off on our phones and resort to using our carefully rationed data plans. We‘ve had to watch regularly scheduled TV with commercials. Some of us have even had to resort to reading books. Of course there is always Starbucks with its free wifi. They’ve seen a bit more of us this week than usual and that’s hard to imagine.

It’s absolutely mind boggling how dependent we have become on this trendy technological discovery. Remember back in the olden days when we sat around the dinner table and all we did was eat and talk and share ‘worst part of day and best part of day’? Or fight over who was doing the dishes? Or when we looked facts up in the World Book encyclopedia  or had to go to the library? When we went to the store to buys things? We went to Blockbuster to rent movies. We listened to music on our walkmans? We took care of Tamogochi’s for entertainment. We met people for coffee face to face. We got our affirmation from people we knew for real life things we did.

But a distant memory. Hazy at best. Those were the days my friend…