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To: elteemike
Our family gathered at my daughter’s home for Christmas Eve and most of the adults (older than 10) had a smart phone, in hand and staring at the screen...


23 posted on 12/29/2019 10:37:54 AM PST by Oatka
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To: Oatka; All

I am tech savvy to the point where I’m the go-guy for friends who have computer problems. I own a $20 TracPhone that gets charged 3 or 4 times a year. It stays in my van for emergencies. I do use my iPad every day. I’m 67 and I am a conversationalist and I do not apologize to anybody for it.

Grandma should kick every one of those bums in her living room out on the street after telling them that the only way they were ever going to get back in her home again would be to drop all their devices in a big box at the front door and keep them there until they leave.

Granny should then go on rant about MANNERS and how ashamed she was to have a family without any, maybe even dropping a few tears or some creative cussing for punctuation.

I am reminded of a story, attributed to Ronaldus Magnus that might apply to Granny...

An old man was hobbling down the street and a gaggle of youts heckled him as he passed.

“Yo, geezer. Don’t you wish you had a smartphone and all the other neat stuff we’ve got now-a-days?”

Geezer replied “Listen punk, who do you think invented all this crap ?”

Granny might well have one of the folks that made all this possible.


25 posted on 12/29/2019 11:33:18 AM PST by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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