Should I join facebook ?
A good laugh for people in the over 60 group!!!
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cellphone 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 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 guess I got a little loud).
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 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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I think that is why my parents tell me they only want to answer the phone!!
This reminds of the saying that ,” you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”.Some of these new innovations are good for us. See how we are enjoying SC, it is the same , but one can choose what to take on and what to leave, it is a world of plent, with loads of choices to make according to taste and usability, my view.
I absolutely love this! Just read it to my 89 yr old mother and she almost fell on the floor laughing! Thank you for putting it all in perspective! I have a cell phone but it is one of those with and on and off switch that’s it…no pictures no tweeting no apps just phone numbers,,, the way phones used to be used!
Wonderful story! Thank you!!!
I really enjoyed this. It tells it as it is in seniors life and the humour is out of this world good job welshcrisie. I really got a good laugh out of it. I also have experienced some of the frustration.
I really enjoyed this
It tells it as it is in seniors life and the humour is out of this world good job welshcrisie. I really got a good laugh out of it. I also have experienced some of the frustration.
I really enjoyed this
It tells it as it is in seniors life and the humour is out of this world good job welshcrisie.
I really got a good laugh out of it. I also have experienced some of the frustration.
I really enjoyed this
It tells it as it is in seniors life and the humour is out of this world good job welshcrisie.
I really got a good laugh out of it. I also have experienced some of the frustration.
Sorry I ended up repeating my comments. I tried to delete the repeats but they would not delete another example of this modern mumbo jumbo. LOL. if someone can delete the repeats please tell me how or delete them for me..
Really like this one, it seems sort of funny, but someone please tell me….what is a blackberry??? i thought it was something u put in a pie with apple & served with cream (or custard if u dont have any cream!!!!!!!) lol
A blackberry is a smart phone 🙂
Interesting mmm but u didnt mention facebook lololor is it cause we aint allowed to mention another site in here oops av just done it hahahahahahah