Old Fashioned By Jim Palmer Jr.

On a busy work day, I needed a quick lunch so I motored through a McDonald’s drive-through for a burger. The attendant at the cash window informed me that the total was $7.20 so I handed him a twenty dollar bill along with two one dollar bills and two dimes. My intention was to get back $15 in two bills instead of a bunch of one dollar bills and the bulky change to go with it. The cashier looked at me as if he were gut shot!
I had to laugh as I drove away because the panic in his eye was especially noteworthy! It seems as though the bright youth of today are so dependent upon technology that they have lost the ability to function without it. I giggled uncontrollably as I recalled how he had looked down at the money and stared wide-eyed, frozen in panic. Evidently he was not able to process the math.  Putting that poor kid in that dilemma is old guy revenge for all of the rude comments about my holstered cell phone, which I’m told, isn’t the cool way to carry it around.

It’s been said that, “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master”. Every time I see someone walking around mesmerized by whatever important meme is on their smart-phone, I wonder if they could function in real life without their phone in hand! Despite the latest trends such as “doom scrolling” that seem to control the attention of the younger generation, good old fashioned face-to-face communication still seems to be the best method for relationship building, at least for the kind of business  I do.

Even though most professional real estate practitioners spend a great deal of effort to keep up with the latest technological advancements, they know that acquiring the latest bright shiny objects hardly ensures real estate success. They understand that folks still like and need that face to face contact in order to have the level of trust required to deal with their most important temporal asset.

Some Realtors® farm for business using impersonal generic leads from websites in an effort to crank out a high volume of transactions with little personal interaction. Many still trust the old fashioned relationship based business style, even though they may use some new fangled methods to find their new friends. See if you can tell the difference.