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Ken B.... I've gotta laugh, Kenster.... my "ex" DID end up with a coupla broken toes when he dropped our big ol solid-as-a-rock black telephone on his foot! And HEY.... there wasn't airbags in cars way back then, but cars themselves weren't made of PLASTIC! That deep "THUNK-sound" when ya shut a car door was heard because that door was ALSO solid-as-a-rock. Nowadays, you may still hear that "thunk," but it's a "created-for-customer-emotional-security" sound. In other words, it's there to create an artificial sense of security in a gullible public, whom if they realized just how very fragile their late model cars REALLY are would prolly get rid of 'em, and begin buying well-made old clunkers from junk yards, spend thousands of bucks (still cheaper than a NEW car!) to renovate 'em, and proceed to drive in considerably more safety (with less gas mileage, to be sure) than they do now. Yeah Ken... I certainly remember "The Life of Riley," and we ain't living it NOW! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of KEn Becker Sent: Thursday, October 16, 1997 12:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Hello? BArb M, you are so RIGHT! (No surprise!) I am ready to send AOL a nasty letter about the difficulty of getting on, and in addition, the slowness of the system when I finally do get on. I wonder if I sent it by snail mail, they would get the hint! ALSO, if I turn my back for a minute, or sometimes when I am still trying to type, I lose the carrier and have to start over! What a revoltin' development THAT is! Am I the only one that remembers William Bendix? THE LIFE OF RILEY! Times were simpler then, and I never heard ANYONE complain about AOL, crashed harddrives, too much Email, and TELEPHONES, YES! You called one number, spoke to a HUMAN BEING EVERY TIME. and ordered a phone by saying, "I want a telephone" NOT a little colored piece of plastic with 78 buttons that 72 of stick, and the other six are unreadable, and if you drop it on a desk, the phone breaks in half, and if you pull the wire once it crackles and cuts you off when you use it! A TELEPHONE was heavy, black, could break your foot if you dropped it, maybe even break the FLOOR, and of course, being an electrical device, after about 30 years, the dial would get a little loose, and a MAN WOULD COME TO THE HOUSE AND FIX IT OR REPLACE IT FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THERE was ONE phone company to hate, with PEOPLE to complain to, and use terrible words to complain like "Excuse me, I am displeased, I got cut off, can I have a nickle credit for my call?" You know what? I think that stress caused by frustration with modern technology, when it does not deliver what is promised, PLUS the lack of good tv shows like LIFE of RILEY, is PART OF the CAUSE of diseases like Parkinsons! At least it makes it worse! Anyone disagree? I am beginning to think that Ralph Waldo Emerson was right when he said "Simplify Simplify" Which was great advice, about the only thing I remember from grade school! Poor guy, gave great advice, wrote books, and they name a lousy line of cheap TV's and VCR's after him. If he knew, he'd SUE! Well that's all I have to say tonight! Ken B