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Phones are an indispensable aspect of modern human interaction

In the ancient days, our forefathers developed elaborate communication systems such as smoke, drums, and messengers. People, then, understood what each smoke signal meant, although nowadays it means that someone is burning trash, of course when it is accompanied by a pungent smell of burning plastics. However, all these systems are obsolete, replaced by hallmarks of human advancement in communication matters-phones.

One of the baffling things about phones is that some people can completely function without them. Perhaps, a possible explanation would be that they have two faulty brain cells that are almost always jump-started by approximately 437 ml of fifth generation liquor. There isn’t single day a person can leave the house without the phone as it is one of the first things someone checks before he/she leaves their house.

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