Well I finally had to do it. Do what you ask? Trade in my iPhone 6 for the newest version. I’m by no means a trend follower, but I swear Apple has some kind of technology that makes your phone start doing weird things as it ages. You know, like the screen freezing, going black, sticking on numbers or letters. It cracks me up that the solution for a lot of this is to turn it off and then back on.

Having grown up in the ’60s and ’70s, I’m here to say that was never a solution for any electronics we had. We would check to make sure it was plugged in or check the battery and then make sure it was turned on. That was it! So I’m sitting here with my iPhone 11 and can’t even figure out how to make a call. Thank god I’m a direction reader. What I need here is a 10-year-old to help me.

The technology that we have seen in our lives is amazing. I can’t imagine what it’s like for someone in their 80s or 90s that used to have to use phones that had party lines to adjust to all the new things. I remember being a kid and having the longest cord for the landline so you could hide in the closet to talk to your boyfriend.

Remember when the first wireless phone came out? It was so exciting to not be tethered to the wall to talk. Call waiting, answering machines, texting, voice mail, all these things to help us. I sometimes wonder if it was easier and less pressure before there was such a sense of urgency to everything. If you were busy they had to call back. If it was important they would. Just driving in my car yesterday, that I’ve had for over a year, I accidentally hit a button and found out that I have voice command for certain features. When I bought the car the salesman told me to sit in the car for about an hour and learn it. I didn’t, but it’s on my list…after the phone lesson.

So at almost 63 I’m committing to learning all I can about my technology, and if I can’t I’ll just buy two cups and a string or perhaps a carrier pigeon.

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