I have a great new state job, but guess what.    They still use electric typewriters for a lot of work.  I gave away my typewriter five years ago to a charity.  It had sat for 3 years untouched in my closet getting dusty before I donated it.  I do all printing and typing on my PC and have done so since at least 2002.  I used to occassionally type a mailing label until avery came out with some user friendly label software.  I can't even remember how to set a tab on an electric typewriter.  I think I can almost remember how to center.  I will have to type a lot of numbers in my job.  OMG, it is going to be hard to reach the top keys instead of automatically using the ten key pad.........Aaaahhhhhhhh!  I love my ten key pad.  I had to google to see if anyone even sold typewriters anymore.  When the state required me to type my info into two forms, I didn't find any typewriter in my neighborhood.......None of my family or friends owned typewriters.......People kept asking, "Do they even sell typewriters anymore?"  The answer is yes.  I googled and I found sites that sell electric typewriters.  They be used for stupid luddite government forms.  Come on U.S. government!  Didn't you promise us a paperless society?  Where the hell is the paperless society?!?!?  OMG, it seems like we have a bigger blizzard of paperwork than we ever had before.  I filled out a application on-line then after I was hired the state made me hand fill in a paper application.  WTH??!???  Are you kidding me??!!????  What was the whole on-line application for if not to eliminate paper?  Couldn't we just print the on-line form to get the information.......Noooooo.....got to fill out a 5 page paper form.  No wonder the forests are dying quickly.  We have luddites deeply attached to paper.  I think there is actually more paper used today because we can create a larger variety of forms everyday.  Would you believe that 5 of the forms that I filled out requested the exact same information that everyone could have easily gotten off my on-line application?  Just had to vent.

Yeah, weird thing is we're an instant-gratification society and typewriters provide exactly that, yet now our society uses computers for our writing almost exclusively.  I'm a writer in my spare time and sometimes I do wish I could just avoid all the distractions that are on my computer, the Net, games, etc.  The typewriter has a certain purity to it.....

Did it sell?