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My On-Going War with Technology
I can still turn a lamp on. That’s about it.
I am an intelligent, educated, grown-up. I can (and always do) read directions. When I get some new technology, like a new cell phone, I actually read the directions and follow them. But it’s a lot like when I used to try to follow the directions my mother gave me for her beef stew. Mine was never as good.
The directions say, “Do this, this, and this.” I do “this,” and the whole thing falls apart. I never even get to the next “this,” because I can’t get the first “this” to do what it is supposed to do.
Then I can’t get back to the “that” that told me how to do the “this,” and I’m lost.
I didn’t even get far enough to have done anything to have messed anything up.
I charged the new phone. I turned the new phone on. Already I’m lost, because the directions said to go to a place that isn’t there, and there is no way to get from here to there that I can see.
And my Alexa argues with me, but that’s another story.
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