Challenged Senior...

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Other

I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.

I signed up, under duress, for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids, and 2 great grandkids 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 now 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 bluetooth phone (it's red), that 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 as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. (Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud).
I mean, the GPS looked pretty smart on my dashboard, but the lady inside was the most annoying, and rudest, person I had run into in a long time! Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating!"  (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 when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good).

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets- (While she is starting to develop the same tone as the GSP 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 run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. Sound familiar?  Oh, please let it keep ringing until I find it- (Don't laugh, I'm serious).

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 '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 just toss it back to them.
When they ask me, 'paper or plastic?' I just say, "Doesn't matter to me, I'm bi-sack-sual!"
Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look.

hehehe    Have a wunnaful day!

XOXO
Me

Thank you Auntie!

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