a silent experience

No, I wasn't giving birth the Scientology way.

I was actually at the library. And upon self-scanning the books I was checking out, I realized that I had come into the library, looked for the Fiction V section, looked for the Biography section, looked at DVDs, and checked out my two books without uttering a single word!

That's right. No, 'hi', or 'excuse me', or 'thank you' was heard from me. No one spoke to me, and I did not speak to anyone either.

I am all for automatising of anything possible!! I think it's great to utilize technology to be more productive (I didn't have to wait in the long check-out line, and they had more time to spend on the long line, since I wasn't in it....I checked my books out with the self-checkout system).

But there comes a point, where a little human contact is completely necessary for the well being of a person.

It worked well for me today, since I don't talk much anyways, and don't mind "being alone". But what if someone very social went in there.........well...they probably wouldn't have chosen the self-checkout to ensure that they had human contact during their visit.