I have said this before on other threads, but I'll say it again here, just for fun.

My daddy grew up in West Virginia (you hear that, Bobert!?) in the 1930s-40s. People were still farming with mules and horses, and grannies were still wearing those old dowdy sunbonnets. (hey, if it ain't broke...)

One time he said to me, y'know, we come up with all these modern time-saving conveniences, and what happens? We save so much time that we cram more things into a day, then we don't have time to do anything! Why, when I was a boy, your grandma did the laundry by hand once a week, and hung it out to dry, and we always had clean clothes to wear. [course I have to throw in, they probably didn't have many clothes to begin with!] Now, nobody has time to do the damn laundry.

And I thought that was just Daddy being funny. But I got to thinking about it, and by golly, he's right.

I have since heard others make the same comment.

And this reminds me of something else.... anyone got the Monsters,Inc. DVD and seen the little short film, Mike's New Car? Mike gets this swank new car with all these bells and whistles on it, and fiasco ensues. :-)