At 3.00 pm today all smartphones across the UK will receive an emergency alert. For months there've been warnings on social media for victims of abuse who may have a secret phone hidden to make sure they have the phone turned off.
It's a test of the warning system, which according to official sources will be used to warn of flooding or storms etc. But we all know it's in case of nuclear war.
But do we want to know that a warhead is headed for us? Actually, yes, because you'd probably want to either rush out and whitewash your windows and position the table for hiding, or just go out and welcome it as a preferable alternative to post-apocalypse life.
Talking of apocalyptic moments, I can only assume that the architects of motorway service station rest-rooms, base their designs on the 'where's Wally?' books.
If you're going to have automated facilities at least make it all or nothing. Otherwise a person could look very silly standing with her hands under a soap dispenser for several minutes just waiting for it oblige.
And that's before I even start on hand driers. Hours can pass while you search for where they've been hidden this time.
Still, they do have exceptionally good cakes in French services.
And this is my Mother's Day present from Italy. A Granny gnome complete with pens and books.
4 comments:
Love the gnome! A fun gift!
What a sweet gnome!
If you have a secret hidden phone, wouldn't you turn the ringer off as a matter of course? What about telemarketers, scammers, wrong numbers? There's any number of ways an unsolicited phone call could come in and betray the phone's presence.
I've been wondering the same thing, Debra.
Love the gnome.
In the fifties then early 60s during the Cuban missile crisis, we simply lived in resignation that there was no point in a warning since we would have max 20 minutes before strike. Punch magazine had a lot of bitter funny articles on what to do with your twenty minutes.
What a cute gnome.
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