Do you ever wonder what would what would happen if the World Wide Web went dark, and for some strange reason you could no longer write with your dominant hand? How on earth would we be able to communicate?

No worries, the Sisterhood is here to save the day. We decided to challenge our selves to see what we would do if this should ever happen. Two solutions we came up with are, learn how to write with your non dominant hand and learn how to use Morse code. As you can see, our headings have become our names in Morse Code! Please read on and see how the Sisterhood is now capable of two amazing alternate methods of communication!

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Hi! Middle Sis here. After the recent Sisterhood discussion about what life would be like if the internet was permanently down, my first reaction was Yes!!! Finally we could get back to cursive writing. I have always had a “bee in my bonnet” about the fact that children learn all kinds of computers skills but really don’t learn cursive writing anymore. This fact was driven home to me recently when handwritten letters I sent to my grandchildren had to be “translated” by their parents. Is my handwriting that bad???

After that humbling experience, I thought it prudent to do some brushing up on my cursive writing so what you see here is a sample of my handwriting, both right and left hands. I figure it may come in handy to be able to write with either hand as I plan on doing a lot more cursive writing to make sure I am ready if the internet does go down.

And you know what they say – failing to plan is planning to fail so I think it prudent to have a backup mode of communication too – Morse code. I’ve been trying it for about a week now and I am getting pretty good at it but my husband is getting tired of me practicing on our bedroom wall with a flashlight at night while he is trying to sleep. I am now at the point where I feel confident should I ever find my self without pen and paper, phone or internet, I could use Morse code to survive any possible disaster that might befall mankind.

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Big Sis here. Personally, I think the likelihood of the internet collapsing is verging on zero. However, I agreed to this exercise because I believe that one should prepare for any and all eventualities, however absurd they may be. (Frankly, I am far more concerned about the zombie apocalypse.)

I can see that Morse Code as a method of communication, should the internet go dark, has some possibility for those of us of a certain age. But today’s youth would surely be unable to either send or receive. Hence, it would just be a bunch of seniors “dotting and dashing” back and forth. I’m not sure that would be particularly helpful.

“The dominant hand thing” is more worrisome for me. I take great pride in my hand writing, particularly because it is extraordinarily beautiful for a left hand dominant person. I have received many compliments on my cursive writing, not to mention the fact that unlike many left handed people, my hand placement looks very normal as opposed to placement either above or below the line of writing. As beautiful as my hand placement is, I must admit to regular smudges across the line of writing and I am plagued by a perpetual dab of ink on my left baby finger. But enough about me…

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Little Sis here, in case you didn’t know. Writing in general is not my strong suit, so trying to write my name with my left hand was a real challenge. I really had to stop and think about what I was doing. It gave me a headache.

So, as you can see I wrote it with my left hand on the left, and my right hand on the right. They are really not that bad. My biggest problem is that even with my right hand I do not write at all. I print. I print everything because my hand writing is terrible. If I had to write a note with my right hand you would not be able to read it, so maybe if I had to write with my left maybe you could read it? If not, well then I guess I am doomed.

I was kind of able to write my name in Morse Code, but I don’t think that I got it right. Anyway, if I can write my name in Morse Code at least people would know who I was. If I had to leave a message in Morse Code then well, forget it.

And if I was ever stuck on a ship and had to use Morse Code I would be lost because I don’t know how long a dot or dash should be. Again, I would be doomed.

I guess the long and short of it (or the dot dash of it😉) is lets keep our fingers crossed, and for good measure our toes, that neither of the above scenarios come to pass.

And in case you were wondering, we did come up with a third solution to all of this. Uh…this might a good time to actually have face to face conversations! What a novel idea.

Finally, one last thought to all of this, and I don’t want to scare anyone, but maybe we should be preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse instead?

We plan on doing a new post every Monday so stay tuned for our next one entitled “National Make Your Own Holiday.”