Posted on by Phil Strawn

“Remember The Good old Days?”


Now I’m sounding like my grandfather ” remember the good ole day’s” for whatever point he was trying to make. Now I am him.

Remember the good old days when people actually took the time to set before a keyboard and answer your emails instead of using one word or a stupid little picture of a beer or a heart or some other useless bullshit like that.

I send a lengthy email to a few friends of mine. Nothing that was a novella or a short story, just some questions, and recollections. What did I receive, ” an emoji and “sent on my iPhone” I almost had a stroke. I spent thirty minutes composing an easily readable, edited, and entertaining email, and I get a thumbs-up crap from a smart-ass phone.

No more; I will send one word or a cute little picture and let them figure it out.

Discover more from Notes From The Cactus Patch

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

17 Replies to ““Remember The Good old Days?””

  1. This reminds me that this past summer, I spent a good half an hour creating a birthday email for one of my sisters. She wrote back: “Cute!” That’s it, nothing more! Two seconds tops to make and send that reply. But one good thing about “nowadays” is that I can collaborate with my songwriting partner in France thanks to the advent of video chat.

    Like

      2. One other thing I remembered from long ago. Stienbeck was a prolific writer of personal letters. It was said that if he wrote a letter, something with a deep thought, or a point he wanting to make with the recipient that if he didn’t receive a response in what he considered a reasonable time, he would strike the person off his list. I would think after reading all of his books, that anything John Stienbeck sent me would require a timely and educated response. Just think if would have had email.

        Like

  4. The days of writing letters is long gone. My wife was a great letter writer. Her computer was for work only. To friends and family she would sit down with a true-blue fountain pen and an actual pad with pages and write wonderful letters. That was her thing and they loved getting them.
    Like you, I hate those little faces and that dumb lazy email shorthand like ‘lol’ — which I still don’t know if it means
    ‘Lots of luck’ or ‘lots of love’ or ‘laugh out loud’ …

    Like

    2. And I would bet she had beautiful cursive. I love fountain pens and treasure them. I also have an Underwood portable typewriter, but man if gives my fingers a workout.

      Like

  5. Yes, quite lovely handwriting and she had several fountain pens — no ballpoints! I have the letters she wrote to me when I was traveling…

    Like

  7. Pingback: 163 – Reflection v2 – Beach Walk Reflections: Thoughts from thinking while walking

Comments are closed.