Sunday, May 29, 2011

Technology is a Motherfuck

Now i realise that it does a lot for us, to help. Certainly I wouldn't be writing this if it didn't. But sometimes...

I'm at the airport, waiting in line to board the plane. It's not moving. I poke my head around the monster in front of me, to see what's up. And...surprise. It's some idiot with an iPhone who has their boarding pass scan bar on some stupid app. Of course the scanner at the airport has a hard time reading it off a greasy, reflective, tiny screen. This happens with three other passengers before I finally pass through. And all this...why? Because it's too much to print one piece of paper and take it to a kiosk (of which there are almost always one readily available), enter a number or -even faster for you lazy asses- scan the credit card you bought your tickets with. All of this takes about as long as it just took you to read this. Instead, you just wasted at least as much of your time AND about 300 other people's as well. Thanks, dick. Oh, and you look like a tool talking to yourself on your bluetooth. Remember eye-contact and manners? Naw. Me either.

On a side note, how come it's okay for people to have the overhead light on during takeoff, but not for me to have my tiny MP3 player on?

Songs of the blog: Army of the Pharaohs-Burn You Alive and Say Anything- She Won't Follow You

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like you are using the "minor" inconvenience you experienced to vent your frustrations about how your broke ass can't afford a simple iPhone. BTW I'm so guilty of doing that myself. I've held up the line for 10mins while the attendants were trying to get their scanners to read the bar code from my app :D

    Hey where's the outrage about those scatter box machines that take ultra high definition images of you naked? Those images are stored onto a computer and then is transferred to a national database along with your ID!

    -Hungry Troll

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