Electronic World by Barbara Goodhew

We live in a world of impersonability.
We want to share good news, we get voice mail.

We want to explain, we get a recording.
We need something fixed we get an answering machine.

We just need a question answered, but we have to wait
for the beep and leave a message.

I like progress too, but to me this isn't progression.
This is FRUSTRATION.

anonymous (207.200.116.136) -- Tuesday, July 19 2005, 05:11 pm

KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN
...ya know exactly what you mean....tried to make an appt. for the Dr....got this leave a message crap...then they will call you back....call for my unemployment---press button--speak japanese,spanish,etc...yuk! got fustrated? you bet i did...thanks Barb...great poem

barb (216.123.56.63) -- Tuesday, July 19 2005, 05:47 pm

your are welcome anonymous
They wonder why there is road rage, violence, well everybody is so frustrated. Glad you understand.

Capricorn (82.36.135.205) -- Wednesday, July 20 2005, 10:24 pm

So true
Yea -- I get frustrated and they say if you want `such and such' press button one.....if you want something else press button two..... by the time they get to `press button six' I'm so confused I can't even remember what I rang up about! --and they call it progress -- pah!

barb (209.112.22.243) -- Thursday, July 21 2005, 03:01 am

lol cap
forgetfulness is a sign of old age Heeee. but yea,or" your call is important to us but all our lines are busy please hold". grr

Meridian (152.163.100.197) -- Thursday, July 21 2005, 04:52 am

ya'll are hilarious
I'm sick of those recordings too. Let's say for instance the phone rang with JC Penney's number on the caller ID. Instead of hearing a person's voice, you hear a recording. But sometimes I like those recordings, especially the one that says "Check number 4-5-9-0 for the amount of $40 and 39 cents, was cleared on, July 14th 2005."
---Very good poem Barb!

barb (216.123.57.19) -- Friday, July 22 2005, 03:06 am

thanks Meri
yea those kind of phone calls I can handle lol.
Can you tell I was having a frustrating day. So I put on paper how ticked off I was lol

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