Bruce

Levett

Well — it had to come.

George and Debbie — he in Texas and she in Arizona — met by computer. Long-distance, they courted by computer. ‘

And when finally they met, they married by computer.

Doubtless the day will come when they will announce a blessed event by computer.

(Didn't you take precautions? Of course I did — but the stupid computer crashed.) :

To explain, George and sundry others were chatting, on their home computers — sort of like a conference call

When wedding bells finally rang, the minister intoned the ceremony to an assistant who typed the) words into a computer terminal.

The news item that announced the electronic love story said “it could only huppen in the computer age” and that it was an occasion. “to gladden the hearts of all

Big deal. In my day we used the typewriter for our courting.

The swain, down on the main floor, typed a note hinting at all manner of forbidden delights (face it —

The note, rolled up, was consigned to a plastic container. This was inserted into a pipe — called “tubes”| —and wafted aloft by compressed air. ,

At the message centre, several floors up, was stationed the object of the affections. Her job was to| route the various: incoming messages.

Hastily, she scanned the billet-doux, blushed, and| crammed it into the smock pocket.

At lunchtime, in the dark recesses of the file room, rendezvous took place. “ive

“Suppose someone had intercpeted the note?” she breathed. :

Young love, of course, scoffs at such unworthy fears.

Then it happened. Word went swiftly through the| building that the tubes were out of order. Do not use the tubes until the messages already trapped within can be retrieved.

Messages already trapped within?

that for one entire, uncertain week. a Undoubtedly, the whole thing is much more efficient| using the computer as they do today. But looking back, I wouldn't have missed that week of agony and anguish for all the bits and bytes in the| Id.

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