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Technology is great, isn’t it? Two stories come to mind when I look at this charming little cartoon. Allow me to share those stories with you.

Not long ago, two friends were planning to meet up in the city for an over night visit. They’d agreed on a time to meet but seeing as neither of them has the ability to arrive at a destination on time ever – not an exaggeration – when the first friend arrived about an hour late, the other friend was not there. It’s entirely possible the second friend was running later than our first guy but that has nothing to do with the story, so let’s move on. Wanting to find out where Second Friend was, First Friend pulled out his trusty cell phone to arrange a new meet time they would both almost certainly arrive late to. First Friend looked at his phone, stricken with horror. Dead Battery. He immediately launched into a panic attack of epic proportions. Crying! Screaming! Hyperventilating… okay, I’m exaggerating, but he did freak out a little bit. He was an hour and a half from home. He was supposed to stay at Second Friend’s house and he now found himself without a means of contact. He could just drive on over to Second Friend’s house, but that’s not exactly the kind of place you want to show up to unannounced. Trust me. I’ll leave the details to your imagination but let’s just say, what’s seen cannot be unseen. If you were watching this instead of reading it, you’d see me shuddering right now.

We’ve all been where First Friend was. Technology fails everyone eventually. From the dreaded ‘no bars’ to the dead battery, cell phones are mighty convenient but only when they’re working the way they’re supposed to work. Had First Friend not been so completely dependent on this little piece of technology, perhaps he would’ve noticed the payphone maybe ten feet away from him a little sooner. He noticed it eventually, made his phone call the old fashioned way and met up with Second Friend who was of course running late and good times were had by all.

Now, it’s pretty unlikely that two cell phone will ever walk into a museum and think their ancestors had tails, unless of course you buy into the theory that one day technology will advance to a stage where we can no longer control it at which point it will take over the world. I guess in that scenario, I guess this isn’t beyond the realm of possibility. Again, not the point I’m trying to make here. What’s far more likely however, is that at a certain point, a whole generation of people will grow up having never seen a phone with a cord attached.  My second story.

I looked at this cartoon and got a good laugh. My husband was sitting beside me doing husband things on his computer and I decided to share the cartoon with him. He couldn’t really see it from where he was sitting and actually getting up to get a better look was out of the question. This is how I explained it:

There are two cell phones in a museum – a father and son. They’re looking at a painting of a cell phone with a cord. The father cell phone says…

My husband stopped me.

Really?

I was offended. He didn’t let me get to the punch line!

The father cell phone says…

He stopped me again.

You don’t even realize that you just said cell phone with a cord. Cell phone. With a cord.

And then we laughed. We laughed a lot. Here’s the thing about that little verbal blunder. I’m not even thirty years old and I already refer to normal phones as cell phones with a cord.

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