Pumps' Perplexities

I guess that I have to say that I do miss her.....It has been
20 years since she's gone, but you have to admit that
things in general were a lot simpler back in those days.....

When your telephone did not work, you just went down to the
nearest street corner and put 10 cents into the public
telephone to make your call.......You communicated......

Today it is "communicate 24/7" or else......If you do not,
you and your life are not complete, for some reason......Today
your life can be ruined and your future destroyed by a "dead"
cell phone battery or worse yet "being out of your cell".....

Twenty years ago people learned to "live" as individuals and
make their own decisions.....Today we need the "constant"
contact, with others, in order to live a normally......

And as a result, when your cell phone goes dead, you can not
find a "pay telephone" easily anymore.....When and if you do,
the technological advances, in the past 20 years, have
raised the price of the call to 50 cents on a telephone owned
and operated by the Desert Telecom Corp of Tripoli......
(Two guys in a tent.)......

There was even a "human" on the other end of that olde
10 cent pay phone......I do miss Ma Bell......Pumps