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I recently realized that life is fast and getting faster all the time and I don't think it's just a result of my status, age-wise.

Back twenty or more years ago, about 4:00 p.m. every business day we could hear the helicopter approaching the local area banks to pluck bags off the roof poles, with long hooks. The bags were filled with the day's transactions of checks to be taken to a central processing location to be debited to your account. That would give you a little "float time". No More!!!

Several years ago I bought something at Wal-Mart and paid for it by check. The cashier scanned my check and handed it back to me. I asked her if she didn't need to keep the check. She told me that she scanned the check and it's already been taken out of our account. Yikes!!!

Probably 10 years ago I received our monthly statement from our business gas credit card account showing that our previous month balance had not been credited. When I called the company in California I was told they'd never received our check. Pete hears my conversation and speculated that our check might be laying on an airport runway in Kenner, Louisiana. The day after I had mailed the payment, a plane had crashed there.  Fortunately, they didn't charge us any late fee. All that is now eliminated with online bill- paying which can be both a blessing and a curse, but it sure is convenient. Also, as soon as you charge something on a credit card it instantly appears on your account with the speed of lightning (or computers).

We've recently been told that deposit slips will be a thing of the past.

The coming generations will look upon us as "living in the dark ags". Like I said: Life is Fast, but Life is Good.