Yup, that's right. A member of the
technology deprived (by their own choosing of course)
Amish community called my
house today. He asked for my
dad, since he wanted to tear down a
hog shed and put up a
sheep pen on some
property my dad owns.
You're probably
thinking "Hey! The Amish aren't supposed to use phones!!" Well, that's only partly true. They don't have phones in their
home and don't use them on a regular basis, but it's perfectly fine for them to use a
pay phone or someone else's phone.
Anyways, my new Amish
friend Levi was calling from a pay phone. It's a pay phone primarily used by the Amish. In fact, they even erected a
shed around it in the typical Amish
barn-raising manner.
Levi obviously didn't
talk on the phone much. In fact, it was quite
refreshing. He was friendly and I felt like we were in the same
room. I felt like we knew each other for a long time, even though we've never
met. It makes me
wonder what technology has done to us? How has an
invention that I've lived with my whole life formed my
social skills?
And how long until I get
instant messaged by an Amish person?