I am reminded of an incident that happened to me recently. It was right
after I had that medical appointment that I told you all about because I
liked the doctor and the informal atmosphere. After that appointment I
stopped to use an ATM. The person driving me waited in the car parked in
a loading zone at the curb. When I got back in the car she said, "You're
out of style." She had been people watching while I was using the ATM.
The first thing I thought was that she was making some kind of comment
on how I was dressed and I was about to say something to the effect that
I don't give a shit about what is in style. But she continued and what
she meant was that every single person she saw on the street was either
looking at their phone's screen or had it up to their ear. Obviously
there have been a number of changes since I lost my eyesight more than
28 and a half years ago. By the way, an aside to whoever the
seventy-year-old was who wrote this piece. Donald Trump is seventy years
old and he can't stop himself from constantly tweeting.
On 11/20/2016 12:29 AM, Richard Driscoll wrote:
*WHY AFTER 70 YEARS,*
*I DON'T BELONG ON FACE BOOK *
*Should I Really Join Facebook? *
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Read it all the way through!
It's a good laugh AND really quite true!!
A good laugh for people in the over 70 group!
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business
I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays
music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and
Twitter.
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven
kids, their spouses, my 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could
communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle
something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of
everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation.
I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the
garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I
get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or
library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the
Bluetooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I
wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking
to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at
me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a
little loud.
I mean, the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady
inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run
into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically
say, "Re-calc-u-lating.” You would think that she could be nicer.
It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a
deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then, if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good
relationship...
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name
of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same
tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the
cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I
still haven't figured out how I lose three phones all at once and
have to run around digging under chair cushions, checking
bathrooms, and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.
The world is just getting too complex for me.
They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store.
You would think they could settle on something themselves, but
this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" Every time I check out, just
knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags
to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me.
Now I toss it back to them.
When they ask me, "Paper or plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter
to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with
a blank look.
I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart a lot."
P.S. I know some of you are not over 70. I sent it to you to
allow you to forward it to those who are. I figured your sense of
humor could handle it....
We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage doorremote are about all we can handle.
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