Things that no longer annoyFollow

Caller ID.

Single greatest invention ever. No longer will I ever pick up the phone expecting it to be my girlfriend and instead finding it to be my boss wanting me to come in and work.

There are more but you covered most of them.

Singly repetitive 2D/side scrolling video games.

• Having to always sit 10 feet away from the phone in the kitchen.
• Getting a busy signal when calling friends, or missing a call because I was all ready on the phone. How did we survive without call waiting?
• Forgetting the name of a song, artist, or actor. Google has changed my life!
• Having to clean the snow off of my car. Remote starters are the pooh!

Having to sit by the phone AND having to hold it.

Oh yeah, Monx reminded me.

Having to make sense.

Writing a reply used to require the horrible effort of having to write a reply that people other than the voices in your own head could understand. No more! Any old ***** will do now.

Oh and instant oatmeal because boiling water made schnozzberries not taste like schnozzberries on the third sunday of May! If you know what I mean.

Oh. I thought of something else. Having to get up and walk across the room to change the channel on the TV. And only having 4 stations. And the B&W TV in my bedroom.

Also. Having to set my radio next to my tape player, hit record and then shut the door, while telling the house to shut-up, I was taping American Top 40.

Not having the responsibility decide whether to pick up the National Enquirer, or a real News Paper. Now all I have to do is log onto the net and bingo, the news servers give me both in the same column.

Not appreciating Sleep Depravation was a violation of human rights and not the normal. Maybe someone should take on the telemarketers with the new strategy or that kid who runs up and down the street with his boom box blaring {insert music you dislike here} as I’m trying to nap. Now we can sue the city if they run a street sweeper or if a utility company has to remove a tree after a storm.

Not having to look at the spine of a book and knowing if it was a biography, autobiography, novel, fiction, science fiction, dramatization or reference book. Now I can just go to e-bay and shop until I’m cross-eyed.

Back in the day as a child, if you didn't know how to spell a word, a smart assed teacher would tell you to look it up in a dictionary. How in Bob's name was one supposed to find a word in the dictionary if they had no idea how it was spelled? For example "phonetic". If a child thought it was "fonetic", how should they look that up? How about "pseudo"? Teachers were cruel. Now all that kids have to do is type their version of the word into google such as "fonetic" and you get the response of "Did you mean: phonetic?".

Mind blowing.