The technology conundrum.

Galloping technology has revolutionalised our life without us realising it and many a time, the results are humorous if not idiotic! To a passive observer it's discernible making one wonder about the big puzzle that life is all about.

This afternoon, I was at the railway level cross waiting for the train to pass and was witness to this amusing sight. It was drizzling and two young ladies were walking past. One of them had a bag full of something while the other was holding an umbrella over the both of them and they're in serious conversation with one another. All of a sudden, as if on cue, both their cell phones rang simultaneously. Their consequent reactions were a bit comical, at least, as they appeared to me. They broke ranks and began their conversations with their callers, completely oblivious of their surroundings as a motorist, moving into a side lane, had to hoot continuously to drive past them. In the process, the young lady with the umbrella had the canopy over her while the other was left to face the fury(?) of nature and the beauty of it was that she didn't seem to mind a wee bit.

O, these cell phones!

Tailpiece.
Shows how we've progressed through time. There were times when telephones had two digit numbers prefixed by the name of the place( for eg. Kochi 91) and it would be announced that a trunk call was coming in and therefore, to be standby after which there would be a fairly long pause when one could even lose one's patience. And when the call was ultimately through, one had to howl to be heard at the other end - a passive observer might have still wondered as to whether the instrument was required at all, in the first place, with the decibels exercised!