Thanks for acknowledging and apologising for your email address error Arlene. Very
courteous.Wayne, speak for yourself - not others.John
From: wprimetime(a)sbcglobal.net
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:29:46 -0700
To: asienkiewicz(a)sbcglobal.net; wls-anglesey(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [AGY] For the older folks/Cute
Don't apologize, it was great, especially for us old codgers. Wayne
On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Arlene Berta wrote:
> I apologize this was not meant for the site. Arlene
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> From: Arlene Berta <asienkiewicz(a)sbcglobal.net>
> To: wls-anglesey(a)rootsweb.com; Johann Rockaway <jrockaway(a)hotmail.com>; Judith
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> Stivers <jjstivers(a)gmail.com>; Lynn Mitchelll <itsmelm(a)live.com>;
Margaret
> Reynolds <margaret.e.reynolds(a)gmail.com>; Mary Quimby
<maryq64(a)tampabay.rr.com>;
> sharon/sherry <sherrykay66(a)localnet.com>; Wanny Lara
<Sassybrat4sure(a)aol.com>
> Sent: Sun, October 14, 2012 1:07:30 PM
> Subject: [AGY] Fo
> I do use some of these electronics, as I know many of you to also, but it's
> cute.
>
> Thought you would enjoy this....
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> Should I Really Join Facebook? (Priceless)
> Read it all the way through! A good laugh for people in the over 60 group !!!
>
> 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
> 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 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 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
> pass gas a lot."
> We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage
> door remote are about all we can handle.
>
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