26-02-2025, 04:17 PM
(26-02-2025, 01:43 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I have decided these mobile phone things are a pain in the butt. I gave up my nice well trained landline, because of the rumours they were no longer going to be supported by the telecoms sometime soon, - get used to the modern alternative Michele, I told myself. But I hate them. I have difficulty using them, I don't understand these app things, and I forget to take it with me when I should. I lose it under piles of books, or leave it in the kitchen on the charger, or in the handbag on the shelf by the door. It rings and I don't hear it, or a text comes in that I don't catch up with for days. I hate the bloody thing. So I tell my friends, email me. Don't ring me, email me. My tablet is by my side constantly. And most of them laugh at me but they do me that little favour...
Except one. And now she's taken offence and gone into a deep depression because I'm ignoring her, she thinks. I'm not ignoring her, it's that 'orrible little thing...
Bloody phones.
The whanau (mostly Sweetie darling No.2 ) organised me into a cellphone after the quake when the phones went down & Sweetie darling no.3 had to bike & walk over to mine because they couldn't get hold of me.
I didn't want the damned thing but could see their point & so can sort of use it. Only for telling the time (I can't wear a watch) & for taking photos because I hate the constant updates & gave them up so it probably won't function as an actual phone & anyway, that lot know I'm a technoklutz.


So I use my landline for phone calls. And that lot know they can get me eventually through FB or landline if its important.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)