Oh, those amazing talking...machines...

Last night I was packing my BiG suitcase, as I do always the night...(better say, morning) while trying to communicate with AA.com, through my cell phone, from La Paz, Bolivia to their eight hundred number.
I had received an e-mail, about 8+pm, announcing that my flight, Miami-DCA, had been cancelled because of the bad weather up North.
My frustration kept raising by the second in the middle of the early hours of this morning.  When I finally got an English speaking human voice I rushed to explain my situation (I did not want to spend  the night at the big, and I mean, BIG International Airport in Miami, until I could get home, sometime after the  announced storm in the Washington DC area ).  Finally, a sweet soft voice said she would see if I could change my reservations for another day before the weekend... I could get home after the storm.
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I stopped breathing,  I tried not to move my head, my arm, my position, so I would not loose the signal in my cell...waited a few seconds, seemed hours, until I realized I lost the connection completely...  My credit in the phone was gone!

It is amazing how we depend on these little machines that DO everything for us, I wonder sometimes if these thinner-and-lighter-every-year little robots could bring someday my shoes like a loyal valet or even cook my dinner!  How we cling and depend on them...yet at crucial, important moments, they die!  They stay in front of you totally inert, useless, little hideous  monsters that do nothing for you when you need them most.   Yet somedays they can change our life from one moment to another; our whole  disposition and outlook on a particular moment, they give us hope when feeling alone, change our character, the whole disposition towards life, with only a voice at the other end or music into your ears.

Maybe all this writing is a gross exaggeration on the need and dependance we place on the whole tech advances we have these days; we are always complaining about how much we depend and need them, while reaching to use them, not thinking that these are our times, the XXI century and the fact that we can be in the middle of nowhere, high above mountains and altitudes where we have to gasp for air and yet we can reach our families, friends, emergency services as long as we have a good connection, enough MBs and fresh batteries in our love/hate small systems of communications around the Globe.