A rather humorous article that, sadly, is the way of the current generation in which we live:
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He is away at university in the United States and I needed him to sign a form and mail it to me. I felt this was a very basic request.
His days are filled with lectures on 18th-century Russian poetry. His evenings are spent writing 1,500 word essays. Surely, shoving a piece of paper in an envelope, scribbling an address on the front and sticking a stamp on it should have been a walk in the park.
Wrong. Try a walk on the moon. The texts and phone calls required to complete this task were equal in time and effort to sending a man, no, a crew, to the moon. The far side. And back.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...tent=2426656
Posted 05/12/2012 4:09 pm
