Is this you?

[happy daze john in oz]

I am sure you will enjoy this even if you are not >60yrs!>
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 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 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."

[Frederick Lacey]

I think john that most of us over a certain age will recognise this. My son looked at me in a strange way

when I asked him how to scan a photo for the hundredth plus time, I keep forgetting.

Fred.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, Hi Happy john in oz, My son oldest one, is a I.T. guru he tells' me off for for using my desk top computor {outdated} and laptop, why dont you do everything by phone now? I cant see the screen old eyes, and my hands are too big to press the right buttons, G.P.S. is on the mobile /phone media thingy a app free of charge you know where you are no matter how drunk you get? He also put a credit wireless money app on it? to pay the shopping. I belong to the time of the 2 station t.v {Black and white} B.T. telephones 6 months waiting time for non party line, if lucky? Cars travel if you got lost you would asked a policeman, if you had a car? trolley bus for local travel 2d a ticket I must be way passed my time where do I go to get an upgrade?

[John Pruden]

all this and to think we first started writing on a slate in infant school??jp

[gray_marian]

Fred,

When I ask my youngest daughter sws, [she who sighs] to do the same on my ancestry site, I give her a weeks notice and her favourite dinner...
failing that I remind her of all the "taxi" rides!

[Chris Allman]

I was lost when they took the dial off the phone !!!!

[Colin Pook]

thank goodness there are others like me. I was beginning to think I was the only one!

I bought a video recorder 2 years ago, and I still have to ask my son how do I programme it.

I have a mobile phone, and haven't a clue how to text some-one

I had a new battery fitted in my car yesterday, and to reset the radio, clock, air-con, and everything else will give me night-mares

Son bought me and her a new digital micro-wave---we still use the gas cooker

google made a few alterations to the way I send and recieve e.mails---I contemplated changing to yahoo

I have to read the instructions on how to put a new ink cartridge in my printer, (only had it 4 years)!!

plus-net, in my sons' absence, asked me to do some tests for them on our router that isn't working proper--I hung up!

bought a new telly from curry's--asked the eng. to come down daily to show me how to tune the xxxxxxx thing

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD PROBLEMS

NOW WHY IS THIS KEYBOARD wRItiNg In caPItAls??

Sod it, I'm going out the garden, good day to you all

Colin.

[Colin Hawken]

My 21 Year old Great Nephew (like so many of his age), is an absolute wizard with a computer.He was staying with me for a weekend,as he does occasionally. I had a problem with my PC,he said"Let me have a look." his fingers just flew over the keyboard,almost a blur. "It's OK now,if it happens again,that's all you've got to do" he said. "Yeah Right" I said.He gave me a pitying look,shook his head and walked away. He has a great sense of humour,I wouldn't be without him for all the money in the World. He's studying Computer Forensics at Bournemouth University. Only one in our Family to make it to Uni. Don't know where his brains came from. Not me,that's for sure.

[happy daze john in oz]

all this and to think we first started writing on a slate in infant school??jp

I well remember we had to provide our own. The roof leaked for weeks after that.

[Lou Barron]

Thats a very good subject Colin i do have the same problem with my daughters telling me i should do this and do that i just look at them and say i might be old and not up to all these modern gimmicks but i am not stupid one thing i do not like to be treated like a old fossil