{"id":50429,"date":"2022-02-06T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50429"},"modified":"2022-02-06T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:19:13","slug":"phones-make-my-head-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50429","title":{"rendered":"Phones make my head spin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cell-phones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40324\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cell-phones-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cell-phones-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cell-phones.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Whenever I have to discuss telephone technology with anyone younger than, say, 30 my head starts spinning around like a top \u2026 kinda like Linda Blair\u2019s noggin spun around in the \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It happened again today. I purchased a new cellular telephone. My old one croaked on me. It wouldn\u2019t hold a charge. So, with my son\u2019s help this weekend I found a juiced-up new phone and today I trudged to the phone store in Princeton to select what we had chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it got dicey when the young woman who I guess is in her late 20s began chattering in technospeak. I told her she might as well speak to me in Martian. My age was obvious to her, so she got it.<\/p>\n<p>I then reminded her to ask her grandparents about the phones they used when they were her age. Her immediate response was, \u201cMy grandpa didn\u2019t have a phone.\u201d Well \u2026 there you go.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I told my young friend, there was a time when I was a boy that my parents purchased a new telephone for the kitchen wall plug-in that had a \u201ccoiled\u201d cord that allowed whoever was talking on the phone to walk away from the wall a little farther; we weren\u2019t restricted by the stiff cord that came with the previous phone. It was a big deal, I told her. She got it!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a different era these days. I won\u2019t call it a\u00a0<em>\u201cnew\u201d<\/em>\u00a0era, because cell phones aren\u2019t all that new.<\/p>\n<p>I try to be a relatively hip old guy. At times, though, the language used to navigate through all this high-powered technology flies over my occasionally thick skull. I\u2019m getting better at understanding\u00a0<em>some<\/em>\u00a0of it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to take a good while longer for me to obtain total fluency \u2026 if that day ever arrives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I have to discuss telephone technology with anyone younger than, say, 30 my head starts spinning around like a top \u2026 kinda like Linda Blair\u2019s noggin spun around in the \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d It happened again today. I purchased a new cellular telephone. My old one croaked on me. It wouldn\u2019t hold a charge. 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