The thing about these phones is just bizarre. If you're blind and you hear
someone in your vacinity talking, they are very probably talking into their
cell phone. It happens to me when I go down to get my mail. First of all, if
someone talks to me without saying my name, like just, "hello", I won't know
it. But now they're usually not talking to me. They're walking in the lobby, in
the hallway, or even standing in the elevator, engrossed in a conversation.
And this 20 year old whom they assigned to me as a home health aide and who,
unfortunately, I will probably lose after a few weeks because she's trying to
get a slightly better job, well, there's a a whole story to tell about her, a
very intelligent young woman, completely uneducated by a public schools system
that doesn't use educational resources for children of color. Anyway, she asked
me the other day to explain to her all about Hillary's emails. By the way, she
voted for Bernie in the primary so what's all this about Ssanders not getting
the African American vote? So I gave her a rather simplified explanation of
what the controversy was about and what was in the emails. I didn't realize it,
but as I was explaining, she was looking at her I phone. That's another thing.
People who barely have enough money for food, all have I phones. They don't get
android phones which are less expensive. But anyway, I'm talking and she's
googling, and she says in amazement, "Everything that you're talking about, I
am seeing on the phone!", which, she meant, showed that I really did know what
I was talking about. And that reminded me of a New Yorker article I read
several months ago which described how in New York City classrooms, the
children's use of I pads an phones are integrated into the lessons.
Miriamd
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey ;
(Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 8:57 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Why after 70 or 80 years, I don't belong on Face
Book
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?
(Priceless)
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 door remote are about all we can handle.
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