You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The new iphone.
It was touted as the second coming of Christ, only thinner and faster and with downloadable aps.
But somewhere along the way to telecommunicative Mecca, the Angry Birds got plucked.
People started bitching about stuff like the apple map. Suddenly iphone users got pissed that The Smithsonian Institute was in Guam, and Guadal Canal was in some place called Guadal. I don’t even know what the hell that means.
The angst is so topical, Saturday Night Live did a skit on it. It was the funniest ones I have ever seen.
It was called Tech Talk. After grumpy Americans bitch slap the inadequacies of the new iphone, the hostess invites the Chinese workers who built the iphone onto the show.
Suddenly the complaints seem so trivial and the techies embarrassed.
“You want map app to take you from Dunkin Donuts to Star Bucks. Arghhh, that must be so hard for you?”
“Yeah, you want Macy’s to take you to JC Penny’s. Oh how you deal with dat?”
“We don’t need no app. We sleep where we work. So sowry”
Well there are a few bugs in the new phones is all”, the embarrassed techie says sheepishly.
“Bugs? in phone? That you problem? I sleep in communal bunk bed with 100 strangers lice is best bug I get. LICE. Best bug I get!”
The skit makes me laugh because people waited in line for this communicative marvel and apparently it’s not the umbrella in the rain storm they all hoped it would be.
So
Blame Serie or the Chinese or Apple.
Whatever. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we just get what we deserve.
Serie: How do I get to the Smithsonian Institute? Where is Guadalcanal?
And that is crazy.™