[infoshare] A TECH JOKE
- From: "SHARON JOYNER" <darlenjoy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <infoshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:33:00 -0500
> *You have to read this to the end!!*
> *_A good laugh for people in the Should I really join Facebook? over 50 _*
> *_group !!! Also for those who know people like us._*
>
> */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,
> 13 grandkids 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.
>
> That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree,
> Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and
> something that sends every message to my cell phone and ev ery other
> program within the texting world.
>
> 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 Blue tooth [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 can lose three phones all at once and have run
> around digging under chair cushions and 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 in 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 toot a lot."
> /*
> */P.S.I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you
> to forward it to those who are/*
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