Re:Min-missing: "Now that's not something you see every day...look who's talking now!"

"My, how times have..." "Or is it just me?" ..."every time I turn around I notice something old, something new...It's so bizarre𝅘𝅥𝅮...

"I'm just sayin'..." As in "people are talking..." As in...on the porch...literally...

"A throwback to earlier times..." 

       All this, prompted by seeing a few folks talking on their cell phones, from their front porch, within enough range from their WiFi, close enough to sustain a connection, with who knows who...which brought to my own mind...you would have never seen this when and where I grew up...what, with our one phone in the kitchen connected to the wall, connected with a chord which, by the time I got to high school, had grown to the point we could stretch it some, to get behind a door, even into an adjacent room...but those overhearing could still tell, even with hushed tones, to whom I was probably connected at the time...

       Then there were our own folks talking on the front porch, to other family members, or other folks, neighbors, just hanging out, being 'neighborly'...without anything in their hands, except maybe a cup of sugar they just borrowed, or an extra piece of pie left over from yesterday, offering them a sampling...how neighborly, eh? Sure don't see much of people outside without either a cell phone, or a dog pulling on a leash, not much convo on each other's porches, even after COVID has calmed...

"Haven't ya' noticed; what gives...?!" 

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