you know technology hates you when...

• Saturday AM: You get up to a warm and humid morning. You walk over to your air conditioner, which you've never used... and nothing happens.
• Saturday early PM: Temperature is becoming miserable. You sweat through primping for a friend's wedding, finish wrapping the gift, figure out what to write on the card, look forward to sitting in a cold church.
• Saturday mid PM: In two trips, you manage to get your gear into the car. Put the key in the ignition and.... nothing. Try once more and gather your gear back up without even batting an eye.
• Saturday night: First try sleeping on the floor in front of your fan. Then decide to open the windows and risk being abducted.
• Sunday early PM: Your co-worker tries to call you on your cell phone to tell you she will come help with your car -- only you have no reception. Go over to your landline and try to call her back -- except nothing's happening. Realize something's wrong with phone's sensor and it is not charging. Over the course of two or three calls, communicate with your co-worker to come ASAP.
• Your co-worker (and her toddler grandchildren) arrive. You go to retrieve your jumper cables from your trunk... only the trunk button inside your car has never worked, and your car is so dead it will not respond to your keychain button. Crawl into the backseat and try to reach in through a 6" by 18" hole for it.
• Hook up the cables.... wait a minute or two...
• Notice the smoke coming off the cables on both ends
• Notice the rubber melting off the cables, which had been cooking inside your hot trunk
• Your kind neighbor you've never met pulls up with his own jumper cables. Attaches. Car almost starts.
• Neighbor says you probably need a new starter. (You have had two new starters in the last 10 weeks.)
• Neighbor tries again and car starts. Starter is non-issue.
• Neighbor makes a suggestion that leads to your air conditioner working.
• Take the car to Wal-Mart while the air-conditioner refreshes your abode. Buy a new non-cordless phone.
• Hook up the phone to talk to your mum. Your mom wants to know what that fading in and out noise is all about...

:) We love technology. But do you ever worry we are too technology-dependent? It concerns me quite a bit.