BK, I too used to buy TV Guide every week and mark all the movies I was going to watch. But the whole thing has become a bit unwieldy now...just like TV. Too many options. And, unfortunately, most of the options aren't worth it. I can go through the entire 150 channels on our cable system and find nothing worth engaging my time.
It's sort of like life these days, tons of options for everything, most not worth the powder to blow them up. Options that have mostly just increased the stress levels of our life.
The Lovely Wife had her cell phone stolen yesterday in a store. She had just finished a call when a man bumped into her. The phone flew out of her hand, as well as the merchandise she held. The man and a woman immediately started to help her pick up her things. After they had helped her and left, she realized she didn't have her phone.
It would seem to me that the man who bumped her and the woman were working as a team...the specific purpose to get the phone. It wouldn't surprise me that people are victims of this type of crime more often. Here we all are multi-tasking, giving our full attention to none of the tasks, and not focusing on what and who is around us, ready to prey on us.
I see it all the time. People in stores or malls or on the highway, with their cell phones at their ears and their heads up their ass, oblivious to everything else around them. Technology, while often a good thing, also seems to be isolating us more and more in our little private individual worlds, disconnecting us to actual life and experience.
I told The Lovely Wife to be grateful they just got the phone, which had its service suspended immediately and not her purse or her credit cards. But giving the way folks wander around in semi-conscious stupors yakking their cell phones, I'm wouldn't be surprised if more didn't have purses and wallets lifted as well. Hell, some of them could be stripped naked and never notice.
