Do y’all remember back in the days when someone said, “You’ve got mail” and actually handed you an envelope? I recall running out to the mailbox as a kid to see if my Boy’s Life magazine or my secret decoder ring had arrived. (I wonder what happened to my ring.) Back then, people wrote letters on paper and mailed them to their friends and family. At Christmas time, our mailbox would be filled with cards and letters.
Nowadays, folks keep in touch through social media. They tweet, twitter, post and poke each other via the internet. With a click of a mouse, they can send a short message to their friends that older folks like me can’t decipher. Sometimes they don’t even use words but some silly cartoon figure like a smiley face. Are they too lazy or just illiterate and can’t write out a simple sentence? The thing that really chaps my hide is when someone replies to your text with the letter K. How much more time and energy would it take to stick an O in front of that K?
I rarely find letters or postcards in my mailbox. No, not that icon on my desktop; I’m talking about that dented metal box up at the road. I do find bills and political propaganda occasionally, but recently I have been receiving mail from some other folks, and lots of it. For some unknown reason, I keep getting mail from audiologists and hearing aid supply companies. Why in tarnation do these folks think I need my hearing checked and get me fitted for hearing aids?
