[Skip2MySue]

A good laugh for people in the over 50 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, 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.

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 every 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 to 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 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 50. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.

Us senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.

[sandybill2]

Thank you Skip2mySue----I needed to laugh today and your post is hilarious and so true! I am still laughing.

[mac9]

I thought that I was the only one who felt that way!

[jblum315]

AT least your Gypsy is not as bad as mine. Mine says "Re-cal-CUL-ating" with the accent on the CUL. Makes me crazy. And she says "ODLE" Circle with the accent on the O. I don't know what she'd do with Kissimmee or Ocklawaha. Don't want to find out.

[BarryRX]

Laughed and laughed and laughed!!!

[2BNTV]

I was a former IT techie. I was in the Verizon store and a former coworker knew me from the computer department I worked in. She was so surprised that I asked for a basic cell phone to make and receive calls with no e-mail, bells and whistles. I explained to her that after years of knowing a tremendous amount of data that I lost all desire for technical issues.

Although I am aware of whats out there and will probably jump in as a user. Big difference in being a user than being the person that has to repair stuff.
If this makes me ancient so be it.

Hilarious story. Thanks for posting.

[ssmith]

Thanks always need a good laugh cause I can so relate!

Our biggest problem comes from our smart TV. After storms we lose connection to the internet (but we do still have TV) and them my husband blood pressure goes through the roof as he has to reset all the passwords and then sometimes it does not save it!!! But I do really like my Pandora on the TV to listen to MY music!!! If only it was connected most of the time!!!

[skyc6]

Love, love this, Skipper!