I confess: I can totally relate Alison ... For a while I was using a computer tower that was so old ..... (HOW OLD WAS IT?) .... It was so old, it didn't even have USB ports......Dawn sent me one of those flashdrive thingys one year for Christmas ... I thanked her profusely then I sheepishly said, "Uhh, what is it?" ... She told me it was like an extra hard drive and ya plug it into your USB port and ya can save mp3's and pics on it without using up space on your computer ......I said, "Cool....What's a USB port?"

As Dennis Miller would say, "I don't wanna get off on a rant here but..."

I don't live in this particular technological time period ... I seem to be stuck in the 90's ... Ok, maybe very early in the year 2000.

Technology is rapidly passing this broke old fart by ....I'm not able to "DVR" umpteen TV programs and watch them at a later date ... Television went all digital, mine is still analog ....... Until I was FORCED to buy into a 2 year contract with my piece of crap satellite tv provider (basic cable is not available here)  just to be able to watch tv at all, I was still using an antenna to pick up 4 local channels. (on a GOOD night) .....Now, when it rains, I lose my precious satellite signal and I have no tv at all (That never happened with my trusty antenna)....When it rains now,the president might as well be on every channel causing me to miss Flipper ....I must also note that never in my wildest dreams did I ever think, that in my lifetime, I would be paying my hard earned cash just for the luxury of having over 200 channels of CRAP on my TV that I will NEVER watch.

And don't EVEN get me started on the subject of computers and the internet .....Where I live, "High Speed Internet" DOES NOT EXIST ....I'm still stuck using the same dial-up internet provider I was using in the late 90's (back when the internet finally made it to the confederate states and Walmart started selling home PC's to us future high tech rednecks.)

If you've never experienced our beloved internet before with "dial-up" try it sometime just for gits and shiggles, for only then will you know exactly where yours truly is coming from when I say, don't waste your time (or mine) emailing me the latest "You Tube Sensation" ....I will only be able to view 3 seconds of it (tops) followed by hours of "buffering"....Thanks, but no thanks.

And then there's ..... Cell phones ... Hell, they're not even CALLED cell phones anymore .... They all have names like i-phone .. droid ... etc. etc. .....I've yet to own one of those "status symbol" type of cellular distractions that are costing people their very lives while texting and driving ... Sure, I have a cell but I assure you it's not for texting while driving and it's DAMN sure not for surfing the net, watching movies and sporting events, tv shows, tweeting and updating my facebook status.

Me, I just own your basic Tracfone ... Buy minutes in advance ... No frills. (can't afford 'em) The only features are talk and text ... Can't even send and recieve images ....None of that 3 or 4 G crap.....Use the prepaid minutes in case of an emergency, or if I just feel the need to converse with loved ones (as I do with Dawn,though not as much as I would like) .... I can't think of any reason whatsoever for me to keep track of anybody 24-7 or for them to keep track of ME 24-7....I don't really need a phone that does everything but wipe my ass....Some phones may even do that ... I don't know and don't care....What I do know is that I can't afford to always be buying all the latest "must have" cellular "plans" and phones that are gonna be obsolete 6 months from the time of purchase and I don't need that much organization in my life.  

So that brings me to my latest weird experience of the day .... I go into my local family dollar store to buy minutes for my Tracfone ... make said purchase..... As usual the pin number to add my minutes is printed on the store receipt ... I enter the pin, Tracfone says the pin number is invalid.

I call the number Tracfone says that I should call ... The recorded message tells me that Tracfone has no record of that pin number ...I request to talk to a representitive. (an actual live person)

This is the conversation that followed .... Me: "I just purchased minutes to add to my Tracfone but the pin is invalid." ... Representitive: "Youi ahh wisha to purchase-ll-a minoots  for-a your-s Tracfon-alll ??? .....Me:"No, I want the minutes credited to me that I have already purchased." .....Representive: "Ok, I canna help jew wiffa purchase-a minoots .......Me: "Never mind, I'll try another time."

So  I go back to my local family dollar store that I purchased the minutes from ...I explain the situation, telling them that I have already called Tracfone and had no success in resolving the situation.

Manager tells the assistant manager, "YOU have to call Tracfone" ....So with a "just shoot me look" on her face, the assistant manager calls Tracfone ... then after many painful minutes, she hands the phone to me.

After all that, I STILL have to talk to some person in God knows what country (thanks to N.A.F.T.A.) who can barely understand what I'm saying and vise versa.

Long story short .....(yeah right)  ....... After 1 hour and my blood pressure being elevated to unspeakable levels, I got my minutes added.

Maybe it's just me but I'm beginning to think technology run amok .... combined with N.A.F.T.A. is slowly killing us all.

Of course, that's just my opinion ..... I could be wrong.

Anybody who supports N.A.F.T.A. or works for Tracfone, Dish Network or any of the other Techno-geeks who keep keeping this "poor white Kunta Kinte" enslaved and confined to his half acre of worthless farmland without a mule or a pot to piss in and barely a window to throw it out of,by all means let me and all the hopelessly in debt people know the ways we are so much better off these days..... the number to call is 1-800-Eat-Shit. smiley: tongue





Edited 23 times by 1LewdDude Aug 8 12 10:47 AM.