Man makes mistakes!
Today was a day of mishaps. First, I had more than my normal hard time getting out of bed. Next I had fifty dollars in my hand that I was going to deliver to someone. When I got in the car I noticed I did not have the money with me. I looked all over the car, my body and the house and could not find it. I took the $40 I had left over to my friend and came home once again looking for and failing to find the money. Later a friend living upstairs found it on the stairs as she was leaving the house.
Then the automatic machine called me telling me that one, not which one, of the three drugs I had renewed by automatic machine call the day before, did not go through. I kept trying to get a human being to ask which one prescription it was but kept getting machines that did not have the answer. I finally got someone in India or somewhere who was checking when my phone went dead.
Finally I found a number where I could talk, after some machine directions, to a human being. This person checked for me and, after some time, came back to the phone and told me that the machine has made a mistake and his supervisor would take care of it and all was well.
The next mistake came at the Apple Store in the mall. Everyone may rave about this new style store but I do not like it. There were too many persons working there and I got the wrong person. I was looking for a simple cable for a product I had purchased there and person working there let me to buy the wrong cable, which I knew it was as soon as I got home.
I heard on the news today about a major spamming of spamming network that was going out today. It reminded me of a Star Trek episode on TV when the Star Trek visited a planet that was much advance in computer warfare. They had been at war for a long time with another technological advance planet. The two countries had decided to do war by technology but when one side would win a battle, members of the losing side would need to walk into a machine to die. They had avoided person to person warfare but still needed the kill. This seems to be the direction war is going in on earth.
I remembered when I was young learning the poet’s words: “Man makes mistakes”. Now I know machines make mistakes too.
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