What we all take for granted

If you want to talk to a friend across town and you can't go to their house, what do you usually do?

Call them on the phone, perhaps?

Imagine you live in a tiny rural community that is hard to get to. Imagine that you have to drive a ways to the next town just to use the phone.

Then you might know what the folks of tiny Mink, Louisiana, have to do just to call someone.

Mink, Louisiana is finally getting phone service. No more driving to a nearby community to use a pay phone.

Now, this is 2005. I, like many of you, I'm sure, thought everyone had phone service. But Mink is an isolated town in northwest Louisiana, and had been trying to get phone service for 35 years! They even met with then-Governor Edwin Edwards back in the 70's, and he told them that he'd look into the situation, but nothing was ever done.

Now, they can make phone calls from the comfort of their own homes. In 2005.

Think about that the next time you make a phone call.

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That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--