They’d arrived in my wife’s truck and invited me to join them at a neighborhood Italian joint. We had just ordered food when our friend looked at her cell phone and exclaimed, “Uh-oh.”
“I’m panicking,” she said.
An Amazon driver just made a delivery at her house 7 min. away. Amazon’s alert arrived along with a digital photo. There sitting beside her glass storm door were two packages.
But through the storm door glass the front door appeared to be left open. She has cats. No one remembered leaving the door open, but there it was. The cats might get out.
The two bolted, jumped into the truck and took off. I asked the server to slow up the food.
Seven minutes later, they called to say that they were on they were on their way back to the restaurant. Everything at home was secure.
An additional seven minutes later, our friend explained.
The Amazon delivery driver’s photo caught the storm door glass at such an angle that it reflected the porch side wall (looking like an interior wall), making it appear in the image that the front door was not closed. This set off the frantic chain of events only made possible through fulfillment centers, package tracking, email, digital photography, and cell phone technology.
Thus does modern technology improve our lives.
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