Sometimes if we didn't laugh we'd cry. We just love the technology but it can certainly at times make us feel like crying.
I was talking to a company this morning about an order I was waiting for. It hadn't arrived when it should as apparently there'd been a glitch in the system and as she said the computers weren't talking to each other. Got half the order on Tuesday and when I phoned the other half hadn't transferred over but I was assured it would be here yesterday. No delivery hence this mornings phone call, apparently it had left them so let me check the courier she said. Voice on the phone, I don't believe it there'd been an accident on the motorway and the delivery was held up because of it but we'll get it tomorrow.
I was reading an article earlier about a village here in Wales that was isolated from all the UK. They have no mobile signal and then the very patchy landlines went down, one of the residents had to drive over a mile away to get a signal to let the phone company know of the fault.
Also a resident wanted to arrange a delivery but the company wouldn't do it because they couldn't be given a mobile number, wouldn't have done them any good anyway as there's no signal.
We are so used to the technology now and you don't realise how dependent you are on it till it breaks down.