We have not made our lives simpler over the past 50 years, even with all of the new technology. Sure, cell phones and computers have helped alot, but let's just consider public rest rooms. It's my pet peeve of the week! The automatic soap, water, paper towels, and flushing toilets are actually plots created by our enemies to drive us mad. They rarely work, and we look like idiots trying to make them work! The toilet paper is all nice and safe, out of sight, but absolutely unreachable. You have to stand on your head to locate the beginning point. Then, when you do, it's either too tight, and you're lucky to break off a square, or it's about empty. I miss the days of good old rolls of toilet paper, toilets that flush by hand, soap, water and paper towels which require a human touch to obtain. Who invented all this automatic stuff? It doesn't save water! The toilets are flushing constantly, whether they need to or not!
Of course, I need to briefly mention the phone system. Years ago, we didn't have these menus, which often take forever to reach an actual person. And I'm tired of the old line -- "Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed." Everyone is apparently always changing their menu options, and I must ask why. Are they really changing that often, or is this just the standard opening statement?
I'm pretty sure that every day I can come up with another case in point to prove that we are slowly making our lives harder. Shouldn't new technology be doing the reverse of what it actually is doing?
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