What Would Grandpa Think

You know electronics have come a long way since I first started working in offices 1966. I used an antiquated IBM electric typewriter. The offices I worked in did not have computers yet.

Can you imagine what grandpa would think about today's electronic gadgets? Grandpa used a crank telephone with a 6 party line (Hi Madge, get me #329 (and heaven help you if it was something personal because Joan just might be listening in on the call and she was the biggest busybody around)). He would be totally freaked out with the cell phones of today. Gee, they not only allow you to make a call from anywhere to anywhere (if you have coverage), but they take pictures, let you check your e-mail (e-mail? What's that?), play games (????). If you just told him and he couldn't see for himself he would say, "that's a bunch of falderal!, a bunch of whooey!!"

My husband has a problem figuring out his cell phone. All he wants is to be able to make a call and receive a call. I program all of his numbers and have to check his phone for messages every day, because he can't remember how to retreive them. He took a couple of pictures, but doesn't know how to send them to the computer. Can you imagine if it was grandpa??

I know it may depend on how old your grandpa is. The grandpa's of today can still be pretty young and electronically hip, but my grandpa passed away 33 years ago at 82. Electronics was not a word he was familiar with. This is a world that would take his breath away.