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In reply to the discussion: Am totally discouraged. Got the thrill of my life when I received an I-phone 17 this [View all]3catwoman3
(28,841 posts)30. I remember my mother saying she and her 15 months younger sister liked...
...to play at being telephone operators. Their bed headboards were metal and the design was rows and rows of little perforations (either hexagonal or octagonal) that looked very much like the boards the operators sat at. They would plug things into the perforations and pretend to be operators.
This would have been way back in the early 1930s. I remember those headboards from visiting my grandparents' house in the late 1950s-early 1960s.
Thanks for the memory.
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Am totally discouraged. Got the thrill of my life when I received an I-phone 17 this [View all]
allegorical oracle
22 hrs ago
OP
It took me a while to get into texting. It's a learning curve. But I get what you're saying. I'm 75 and remember
CurtEastPoint
22 hrs ago
#1
Thank you. Especially like your #4. As usual, I find your advice inspiring. Insofar as your
allegorical oracle
21 hrs ago
#5
You make many good points. It is reliable. Have a steno pad, now, with just icons and
allegorical oracle
20 hrs ago
#21
Thanks to you both. Frankly, i'm in tears in some days as I fumble with this tool
allegorical oracle
21 hrs ago
#4
Oh, am older than you. Recall those phone systems of plugging cords to connect people. As
allegorical oracle
21 hrs ago
#12
I've never responded to a text. Eventually people get the message: phone and talk, or don't bother me. nt
eppur_se_muova
21 hrs ago
#7
Thanks for that advice. Already made a friend angry when I was "practising" -- woke her
allegorical oracle
21 hrs ago
#16
Good advice....now if I can only find someone half my age... (yikes).
allegorical oracle
18 hrs ago
#24
Umm...a phone, some texting, and definitely as a camera. Still want my computer to discuss
allegorical oracle
13 hrs ago
#33
I can understand.I only have a flip phone.Rarely use it. I, too, try and communicate person to person via face/voice-nt
marked50
21 hrs ago
#10
What I would do: Give it away! Find a model for "seniors" and tell your friends and love ones that
Earthrise
21 hrs ago
#13
Oh you have no idea of how many times I've considered your advice. There's part of me, 'tho,
allegorical oracle
21 hrs ago
#18
Have friends who are "losing it" over their new washer/dryers because of all the
allegorical oracle
18 hrs ago
#25
Ageism! Old people have to have products dumbed down for them? Really?
mahatmakanejeeves
18 hrs ago
#26
Yes -- have found some that are helpful. Sadly, many videos assume you already know
allegorical oracle
13 hrs ago
#34