INFORMATION OVERLOAD
If I could just get them to shut up for a minute, I could think.
Input, input, input! The living room had begun to resemble the NYSE trading floor – everyone talking – nobody listening. I don’t know how those guys do it – a phone in each ear, and a hundred people screaming. Screw multi-tasking, I lose my place reading a book if the dog barks, outside.
The wife has an opinion. The daughter has an opinion. The son has a different opinion. All I suggested was going camping this weekend.
I’ll just lock myself in the den – and soundproof the door.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
I liked the humour I found in this. Information overload can be self inflicted – just watch the people so addicted to their phones, it is as if they might miss something.What?
However you have raised a great point about finding peace in an overcrowed information age. Perhaps your proposed camping site didn’t have Internet access.
Great point.
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I was aghast last year to discover a product like a small, short barbecue on three legs. Build a fire within it and a heat pump produces electricity – which runs a fan – which makes the fire burn hotter – which produces even more electricity to power USB ports to recharge cell phones and tablets.
Local Mennonites use horse and wagons, but their buggies are full of the blue glow of electronic devices. Is God on Facebook? 🙄
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My opinion is you listen to the wife…
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….and listen, and listen, and listen. Why do you think I don’t wear my hearing
aidsassistors in the house? 😉LikeLiked by 2 people
You know mom and Brother are “a cabin by the lake” people dad… I’m the only one that would consider camping… LOL
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This post is all imaginary and hypothetical. Nothing like this could occur at my house. 😉 🙄
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I can so relate to this!
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The wife watches YouTube music videos. I’ve recently seen three remakes of ‘The Sound Of Silence.’ If only I could get some. 😯
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I can imagine it. About like the chaos at social hour.
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I wouldn’t know. I’m quite unsocial, and am often told that I cause most of the chaos. It’s just a theory. 😉
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giggles… I can see that.
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Dear Archon,
Quite the family dynamic there. I’d be looking for an escape plan.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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A Medeco lock, some Fiberglass insulation. earbuds, and a Netflix marathon. Let them go skateboarding and mall shopping on their own. 😉
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The politics of the family home. The poor spouse/parent but I’m sure all will work out in the end. Great write.
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Family politics can be as aggravating as Federal. T-rump has an opinion. Biden has an opinion. Pelosi has a different opinion. Make it stop! Make it stop!
Thanx for the drive-by. 🙂
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So much easier when the kids didn’t have a voice (that reduced the noise level a tad). I’m with him, I’m hiding away somewhere else!
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We spend the first two years teaching them to stand, and talk. After that, we want them to sit down and shut up. 😉
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Exactly what I always say!! 😉
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Yes background noise can be nerve wracking sometime.
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Some people can handle it. At 75, I think I’ve reached the saturation point. 😯
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Tuning out is acceptable as respite. Enjoy your time away from the chaos.
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There was a time that I could just tune it out. Now, for some reason, the wife insists that I pay attention to what she says. 😳
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