Never again will I let him go for so long without a new phone. I can't remember exactly how old the phone was, but it was at least 10 years old.
I have that talk with MrsT a lot, as she’s a tightwad with money and wants to use it until it won’t work any longer.
I keep pointing out it’s harder to skip multiple generations of phones and not lose something in the process. I also point out that since we alternate getting a new phone, that her dragging her feet keeps
me from getting a new phone!
My mother never had a stroke, and NEVER learned how to use a cell phone, especially a smart phone. She is just as bad with a computer, and just barely competent with a TV remote.
My mom, crazy as it sounds, was an early adopter of home computing - she got one before I did, and I work in IT.
She was very good at doing the things she wanted to do, like email and searching for things on the internet, but she never grasped really what a computer is or does, so instead of just bookmarking a website, she’d bookmark it, save the link off to her desktop, save a copy of whatever it was in another document, and print it out.
She never understood files and folders on a computer, she could never equate them to tangible files and folders…even though she was printing off hard copies and filing them…in actual folders.
Phones - she liked her flip phone, never really understood her smartphone. She had difficulty texting, or knowing the difference between a text and an email, or understanding that the Gmail email account on her computer was the sameas the Gmail email account on her phone. If you said you emailed her something, she’d always ask, “Did you send it to my phone email or my computer email?”
