It makes one wonder how we arrive at our priorities when a man can make millions and be world famous just by being very good at whacking a little ball with a stick.
Well, fiorenza, the office need to talk to me occasionally so I have to have a phone. Secondly: all my deliveries are recorded electronically, as well as having paperwork, so there will be an app on the phone with all the details of the delivery and a facility for the customer to sign for it. Also, I am required to photograph everything I deliver. The smartphone will facilitate all this in one device. Voila.
When I was in junior school, BD, the atlases still had half the World coloured in pink, to denote the British Empire. The misconception that left me with didn't take a lot of shifting as I got older.
When I'm driving along, Xanthea, and see all the pedestrians tapping away on their phones, instead of looking where they are going, I will now be wondering when the novelty will wear off.
Well if you can persuade enough people, who otherwise wouldn't vote for trump, to support him based on the above, I suppose the fools will get what they deserve. But I do have to say, you are counting on them being pretty dumb.
Not as simples as you think, dee. I'm already on the lookout for a job that doesn't require me to depend on having a car, and that is proving fruitless. If I could achieve that at the cost of having to put up with a smartphone I think I could live with the deal.
I daresay my years at school might have instilled in me some attitudes I may not have been aware of absorbing, but, as far as I can say, any efforts to influence my behaviour were only successful on a superficial level; their effect only being visible when I was being observed by authority. Like most kids, when I wasn't being watched I didn't give a thought to complying to rules. All in all, I can't say school had any negative effect on me.
As for dutifully showing up to a soul crushing job everyday -speaking as a guy who still does it-, it wasn't school that encouraged me to do it; it was more a combination of economic necessity and my employer's refusal to have it any other way. So yes, I have to conform to the system, but I haven't been brainwashed into thinking I'm happy about it.
Actually, while I do regard being at work a major inconvenience, I wouldn't say my job is soul crushing.
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As with all your blogs, Vier, your humanity comes shining through.