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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Over 65 Generation

The guy that wrote this is even further behind the times than I am, but I can relate and I thought some of you might be able to as well! Whatever, it's good for a grin, a chuckle and a good laugh!

The Over 65 Generation

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- 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 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 dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, 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 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 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 in 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 toot a lot.

PS
I know some of you are not over 60.
I posted it in order to share it with those who are.

11 comments:

Unknown said...

Hillarious.. but so true..
Thanks for sharing Sylvia.
Costas

George said...

I love it! We have the same GPS lady as he does and she is as rude to me as he described.

jlshall said...

So funny! I'm not over 65 yet, but I can still identify. And I love that "bi-sacksual" - I'm definitely gonna use that the next time I get asked paper-or-plastic.

bobbie said...

This is so funny! And the sad part is, I do identify with it.

Anonymous said...

This is just too funny. Bi-sacksual is just way too funny. Thanks for getting my day started off with a laugh PhQB!

Margie's Musings said...

Just what I needed!!

Roshni said...

I'm not 65 but I relate with this too! :(

Bi-sacksual is hilarious!!!

Bill ~ {The Old Fart} said...

Thanks for Sharing Sylvia, I think the 50's and above can appreciate this as well.

Unknown said...

Wondeful, I'm hugging my sides!! Thanks for the giggles!!

SandyCarlson said...

That was great, Sylvia. I enjoyed it a lot. I am wondering if my folks, who are over 60, would catch a lot of the lingo. These times they are a changin'.

jabblog said...

Love this and the one above, Sylvia - so many nuggets of truth ;-)

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