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[TD]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 and 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 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.

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

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Prism99

Boy, can I relate! Absolutely hilarious!!!

merry

Thanks for the best giggle of the day

AuntieD

I have a cell phone and that's about it. I did purchase a GPS, but haven't figured out how to do some initial settings so its still in the box. Good thing there are grandkids to help figure these things out!

QuiltingGrannie

Have cell phone with camera, texting and internet access. DH has same as well as GPS (which he has silenced the Gypsy lady - she is annoying). I'm on facebook, have a blog, have a web site, on a few forums.
Learn my news by those means sometimes before I hear it on the TV, newspaper or radio.

But I can relate. I didn't like all the beeps every few seconds when I would get emails on my phone, so it is often ---- silenced! LOL.

We fought getting into the 20th century. But here we are..... but we don't tweet.

Phyllis

JanieH

I can surely relate! My niece and nephew tease me because all I use my cell phone for is, gasp!, telephone calls!

Though I will admit to being addicted to my GPS - sure helps me find all those quilt and thrift stores!

walkerjoanne44

This was such a good laugh so early in the morning. I am on facebook. Feel free to Add me. Joanne Walker