Useful tech is all around us
To the editor:
I stopped to mail a letter at the Post Office recently at 11:30 p.m. The diagonal parking spaces were mostly full; people out of their cars smoking and talking like it was noon.
I stopped my car grabbed the letter in the seat next to me that I needed to post and walked up to the mailbox. A young man was sitting on the steps of the Post Office looking intently at his cellular phone. As I pass by I summoned up the voice to put to words my thoughts. “Hello young man what’s going on?” I said in a voice of a frightened, out of touch 50-something man. “Thinking when I was your age I would have been home on a work night because I would have to work in the morning.”
But the young man answered me in a voice like i should have known that somehow the next pocket monster (Pokemon) was going to be there on some sort of digital timeline and so if you don’t mind I need to keep my eye glued to the screen. It was dark so I rolled my eyes with a total release like someone shook an Etch A Sketch and was ready to scratch out a new masterpiece. I replied “OK you stay safe and enjoy your night” as I drove off further on down the street. Just before the State Street church clock, a young father was walking with a 3- or 4-year-old, one hand holding the child’s hand and the other holding his phone. I thought to myself somehow the universe is unfolding as it should.
Michael A. Gudreau
Presque Isle
