by Pat Darnell and Merriam Webster
I do at times feel thwarted. For instance, when did I become aware of the evolution of my internal instinctual clock from hours of the day to microanalyses "minutes" of the month?
THWART: Pronunciation: \ˈthwȯrt\ Function: transitive verb Etymology: Middle English hwerten, from thwert, adverb Date: 13th centuryAsking myself this morning: Is this the beeper lifestyle I have avoided with all my protoplasm for half a decade? Yes, my life cycle has been thwarted.
1 a: to run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle : contravene b: to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of 2: to pass through or across
synonyms see frustrate
— thwart·er noun
Despite that I look around my self, and feel phatt with premium rollover ATandT "minutes" numbering in the thousands. Hmmmmmm... yummy.
Last month, it turns out, I used four "minutes" total on my cell phone. Four minutes?! YIKES! In contrast my children used 68,000 TEXT-ing "minutes".... Luckily those are "unlimited minutes." If not how would I ever pay for those minutes at even five cents per? YIKES -- again?! Oh, shoot here goes my organism parallax brain cell splitting hysteria.
That is some kind of world record, no? How many minutes are in a month anyway? Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes a year... carry the one... divide by binary ten to the twelfth....about 43,800 minutes a month. Two tween-agers can do a lot of damage in one month... together they exceed even the number of minutes actually in a month.... YIKES --- Thwarted!!!
We thought Vietnam was the Domino -- no its 6 billion people all texting world wide each with 525,600 minutes a year... and the rollover and the premium voice minutes plus the anti negative minutes of a voice mail call back... and [brain shutdown; organism at rest till further notice]
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