Everything is Automatic

You communicate using technology everyday, using E-mail, Phones, Instant Messaging or any of the many methods technology affords us. Many people spend hours on the internet chatting with friends, in fact some of us have friendships that wouldn't exist if it weren't for MSN. Some of us will text or instant message instead of phoning or using the plain ol’ method of just talking to them in person. Sometimes you’ll do it because you just don’t want to talk to them. But more often than not, you are texting or instant messaging because it is so much easier to have a conversation like that. You don't have to worry about your body language or how to end the conversation, whenever it gets boring you can just say "gtg cya" (Ugh...MSN slang.) In Junior High (and sometimes in elementary, which is way too young) some of us kept up relationships on MSN or the phone. When it came to the face-to-face relationship we would spend half the movie gaining the courage to hold hands.
Our dependency on technology doesn’t stop with MSN and E-mail though, and you know that. You are very aware of what driving to school or work everyday is doing to the environment, and I’m not interested in telling you that again. What I AM interested in is the hilarious factor of it. The fact that we lack the strength to give up on the conveniences to which we’ve grown so accustomed is what I’m interested in.
I began noticing how lazy we have all become when I started working at Wal-Mart as a cart boy (which I no longer do, visit me in furniture!). While walking around the parking lot, my energy slowly fading away, I would see people four spots away from a “cart corral” leave their cart beside there car. You leave the cart because you know that I have to come and pick it up. That shirt you intended to buy is left in the foods section without a thought as to who will have to put it away. I don’t mean to bother you about that either; we’re being paid to pick up for you so I can’t really complain. But sometimes I realize how my Mom used to feel when it came to my Power Rangers (Sorry Mom!).
After noticing the laziness of some Wal-Mart shoppers I decided to conduct some experiments. My favourite of which took place in between the two sets of doors you go through to get in and out of Wal-Mart. With one set of the out doors being automatic and obviously more convenient they are used the most. Noticing this I decided to use the Wal-Mart shoppers as guinea pigs in a little test. I placed a cart sideways in between the two sets of automatic doors on your way out of Wal-Mart on one end leaving a very small space between the doors and the cart. Instead of moving the single empty cart out of the way people would walk through the first set of doors, around the cart, through the small opening and out the other automatic door. Even people without carts would choose to walk around the cart rather than go out a push door or just getting rid of the cart. I would ask you to do your part and help me in making the world a little less lazy by doing so yourself. But I’m the one who hasn’t updated in 17 days.

-Teck

At one point I wished it were over