Technology meets tradition.

     The day we got the new fax machine was an exciting day!  The old copy machine had finally expired and we replaced the smelly old dinosaur with a gleaming silver copy/fax machine combo.  Bruce, the high school student who helped us out part time after school, programmed in the phone numbers of all the suppliers and vendors on our phone list.  Now, instead of calling on the telephone to order supplies for our electrical contracting and hardware business, or mailing a written order with a stamp, we could fax an order.  Everything had always been hand written, and that tradition would continue in the family owned business until the next generation of owners took over, but the day that state-of-the-art-copy-fax-with-phone-feature-wonder-machine arrived was a big day indeed.  It was the beginning of a technological invasion that would challenge hard held traditions, amaze with its efficiency and frustrate with its quirks. I remember one day.......one day the clash between technology and tradition was an incident heard 'round-the-world -- or at least in every corner of the world programmed into the *#%#* wonder machine...