I find it funny that my parents are more technically advanced than I am. Mostly it’s because I don’t believe that I need most of those gadgets out there. I still can’t imagine not holding a good book in my hands, and as a stay-at-home mom, I don’t feel the need for an iPhone or a tablet. That doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy borrowing that stuff to play with though.
The last time I visited my parents, I became curious and wanted to check out my father’s iPhone. As I sat next to him on the couch with his phone in my hand, I flipped through the two pages of apps that he had, not finding anything that really interested me… well, the National Weather Channel app was pretty cool. No games… dang. I needed something that did something, something that I could interact with.
I found the PBS news app. Although I don’t really make a habit to listen to PBS news, it’s pretty monotone and dry, but it would do. I decided to try it out, just to see what I could make happen. I pushed the “listen to the morning news broadcast” and it then said in writing, “you are listening to this morning’s broadcast”. Nothing happened. There was no sound, no broadcast. Silly me, I shook the phone as if that was going to make something happen. I tried to listen to it as if I were making a call. Nothing. I turned it backwards, looking for a speaker and tried to put it to my ear. Again, nothing. Huh.
All of a sudden, my Dad, who was quietly sitting next to me, watching TV exclaimed, “OH!… the PBS news is playing!”. My smarty pants, technological Dad had blue toothed his iPhone to his hearing aid! Sheesh. I turned the news broadcast off and put the phone down.
Oh man… That one made me laugh out loud. Too funny.
You could really torture your father with that device!
Haha, good idea! I can just see it, “Stan, this is GOD… I direct you to do whatever your daughter tells you to do!”