Monday, March 16, 2020

What did you say?!


Many years ago, I was a PBX telephone switchboard operator. I loved that job. But sometimes messages could get garbled, misinterpreted, or passed on until they did not even remotely resemble the original content. Sort of like PLAYING TELEPHONE.  

Alex and Charlie found our old, inoperable cell phones. They both had been fussing with each other and wanted to call mama.

Alex speaks fluently. Charlie, 19 months, chatters and babbles endlessly; every once in awhile you can make out a word. He was mad at Alex and tattling, "Unintelligible babbling (about three sentences) and Mama, Bubba jabber-jabber-jabber...mama! Blah, blah, blah!" All that jabbering and every time he said, "Bubba" Alex just held his head. I had to laugh.
It really isn't that much different from listening to all the chatter on T.V. about the Corona Virus. It is enough to overwhelm you and give you a real headache.

In these trying times (our tax preparer, scheduled for tomorrow! just canceled on us) when schools are closing, and businesses are encouraging employees to work from home, we all need to do our part to prevent the spread of this virus.

Closures are an inconvenience for many, a matter of life and death for others. Please be considerate.

I am concerned about the needy school children who will be deprived of meals. The elderly who will be deprived of visitors.

6 comments:

Pat Wahler said...

These are scary times for sure. But we will get through it.

janet smart said...

It's enough to get you depressed at times. We decided to see how long we can stay at the house without getting cabin fever. My husband and I like to run around. But the Senior Center where I volunteer at is closed and the Library has cancelled all meetings at their location, so I won't have my writer's group meeting this week. Now if we can just stay away from Walmart, we'll be okay. My kids said if they got sick, it would be from us since we run around so much. As for the school kids, the school buses are taking breakfast and lunch to the kids in our area.

Sioux Roslawski said...

I am hoping to do some outdoorsy things in the next few weeks. Bill's too tall; no virus will be able to attach to him, so he's safe. You--you take care of yourself.

Val said...

I'm gonna miss my daily 44 oz Diet Coke an scratchers!

DUTA said...

You seem to have quite a lot of entertainment with the two adorable kids: Alex and Charlie.
The elderly are a bit under too much scrutiny now, and asked to comply with certain restrictions.
Take care.

Connie said...

Such cute pictures. Yes, the constant updates about the virus can be overwhelming.