Today,
I will call my son. With today’s
technological
wizardry, I usually begin
with,
“Where are you?” After all, with
all
the telephonic mobility, he could be
almost
anywhere. Even though I am
cellularly-equipped
as well, he can
most
assuredly assume that I am calling
him
from my home, for I am unable
physically
to roam very far from my usual
static
and stationary place. And too, it costs
no
more to call from a hundred miles away
than
to communicate from next door. That’s
why
I can afford to "ring" him up every day.
Oh,
and by the way, that is to say, he has no
need
for a phone which "rings" when a call
is
made. There are programmable options
these
days. You can respond to a lead-in
from
your favorite tune, or some other
annoying,
attention-getting noise which
alerts
you to an incoming transmission.
Today,
I will call my son as I do most every
day.
I will begin our conversation pretty much
the
same as always with, “Where are you?”
He
may well tell me he’s in Timbuktu. And
what’s
weird about that today, and the rapidly
advancing
technology, I could possibly believe
what
he’s telling me is true. One of these days
(and
more than likely pretty damn soon), my
qualifying
query will have to be: “Is that the
quaint
bar and grill in Andover, Kansas or that
original
ancient city in Mali, Africa?”
Chris
Hanch 11-3-17
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