This is as far as I got with my computer graphics skills. I wish that I had more of an aptitude for technology, but it just isn't in my cards. Now that I really examine the precision in which I executed my skills, I'm more convinced that someone from Easter Seals would spank my ass in a graphics competition. That's a shame. I should be cruising along with the times and assimilate with the rest of the world.
For years now I took solace in knowing that my grandmother still owned her rotary telephone. Sure, it took a year and a half to dial a phone number, but there wasn't call waiting, the ring was a comforting bahhhringgg bahhhringgg, and when you hung up on someone, it felt most satisfying. With buttons on phones these days hanging up is passe. I miss the more primal way of doing it. It seems like only days ago, hanging up went a little something like this:
"Oh, what was that?! Oh yeah, motherfucker?!"
"Yeah, bitch. You heard me!"
"Oh, ok. Well fuck you, you jherri curl dripping, teeth grinding, hammer-toed, ass licking BASTARD!"
"Well, You can take your-"
(*and this is when the hang up happens)
"No, FUCK YOU!"
And at that moment, even though on the other line, all that the person hears is a click, MUCH MORE transpired on the hang up side. The person who hung up had the satisfaction of slamming the phone back on the dock (which takes countless times of practice between those field goal-like hooks). As they slam the phone down, they get to hear the *slam* of the phone and let their anger flow through their body, out their arm and channel it through the telephone that is attached to the wall (most likely in the kitchen). And that is that. That particular episode dispersed their anger in an efficient and harmless way. And truth be told, hanging up on people with rotary phones is one of the most satisfying ways.
Now on a 'new age' phone, hanging up on people became pussified. New age telephones have buttons that light up, no cords to regulate where the talker goes for privacy in the house and if it isn't a land-line (which is pretty much obsolete now) it's a fucking gadget called a "cell phone". When the phone rings, if it doesn't sound like you are in a spaceship run by synthesizers, then the ring is probably a top 40 song on the radio. And this is how THAT hang up goes:
(Pop song ring tone and vibrate) (Also a picture of the caller because calling is never a surprise anymore)
"Hey, Micah."
"Hey Apple (because everyone has stupid names these days), why didn't you text me back?"
"Because, Micah. I told you that I was in my Bikrham Yoga class between going to my therapist and picking up Chloe (her fagloid dog) from doggy daycare. I though you got my Tweet."
"Can you hold on, Micah? Sky is calling me. I have to take this."
"Fine."
(Beep over to other line)
(Dead air for 45 seconds)
(Beep back to Micah)
"Hello? Are you still the there, Micah?"
"Yeah."
"And the Tweet? Didn't you get it?"
"No, Apple. I didn't get your tweet. Speaking of which, I really don't think that you respect my inner peace by tweeting your entire life to everyone. We are supposed to be partners."
"Here we go again, Micah. This is exactly what my acupuncturist warned me about. Your energy is interfering with my Chi and it's affecting Chloe's eating patterns. Sorry. I have to go."
"But-"
(*And this is when the hang up happens)
At that very moment the caller that is being hung up on still hears the same beep, but on the other end, things have drastically changed for the caller doing the hanging up. The person hanging up has to take the phone away from their ear, look down at the miniature buttons, locate the "End" button and press it. And THAT IS IT. No slamming things unless you want your phone to disintegrate into a million pieces and no yelling during the conversation because your phone's signal keeps going in and out of service. Just press the "End" button, hear a *beep* and the Face of the person on the other end goes blank.
And that might be the worst part about it. The last thing that I want to do when I hang up on someone is see their face because it is just going to make me want to punch them and the fact that they are a computerized graphic on my phone doesn't fucking lend a hand. That just infuriates me even more. By that time I'm to the point where I just want to throw my phone at a wall or down on the ground and stomp it in a million pieces, pretending that it's the person that I hung up on.
I have one friend who is notorious for always having a new phone. He has such an anger problem that his cell phones eat the wall on a bi-weekly basis. I guess that you could say that his case is a bit much, but I congratulate him on letting the anger out. It's normal. So are rotary phones.
Cell phones aren't. They have helped pussify this generation. That's why old people hated them so much when they first came out. Hell, most old people still do. And so does Alexis.