Hello? I see you!

My father was a salesman my whole life.  He traveled each week and was usually gone overnight anywhere from two to three nights a week.  Each night he would call.  This was back in the day when we had rotary phones, no answering machines, and no caller ID.  Yet, we always knew it would be Dad on the other end of the line when we picked up as he always called in the early evening.

Me:  "Masons!"

Dad:  "Well, hello there."

Me:  "Hi Dad!"

Dad:  "Hi yourself.  You're looking good."

Me:  "How do you know, you can't see me."

Dad:  "I certainly can."

Me:  "No, you can't.  There is no such thing as a phone where you can see people while you talk."

Dad:  "I see you and you are looking good."

Me:  "If you can see me, what am I wearing."

Dad:  "Clothes."

And the conversation would continue until one of us got tired of it.  It never differed for the most part.  He always said I was looking good, and I always said he couldn't see me because there was no such device.
Unfortunately, my father passed away before that device actually came into play in my life.

We now have phones with face-time.  Call up someone with face-time capacity and there they are while you speak to him.  He can see you.  You can see him.  Our computers have the ability to dial up someone on an application called Skype.  There she is on your computer.  There you are on her computer.  My Ipad can do the same thing.  I can see my mother and she can see me on her Ipad.

Darcy and her cousin, Gabby, in Indiana call each other daily on Skype.  Darcy sits her laptop on the floor and Gabby sits her laptop on her floor and the two of them PLAY BARBIES TOGETHER!  Right there via their computers!  The other night we had Gabby on Skype and she joined five of us and we all played the game Password.  She sat on Darcy's lap.  It was very surreal for us older folks.

And all I could think was that my Dad saw this coming way back when.