Stephen wrote:
> On 27/10/2010 1:33 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2010 3:45 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> Hmm, I may have missed a step: How about a telephone? It's not a
>>>> computer, but it sort of talks to one. How many people can't work a
>>>> telephone?
>>>
>>> Talk to someone who was around when phones switched from a switchboard
>>> to rotary dial, or from dial to push button. May be hard to find
>>> someone, but I bet they will give you a list of complaints similar to
>>> what you hear about computers.
>>
>> I met someone who didn't know how to turn on a cell phone just a couple
>> years ago.
>>
> 
> When did you meet my wife?
> 

Well, to be fair, the guy had been living on a tropical island for 15 years, 
so it wasn't really surprising.  (Actually, it was surprising, since he had 
said he'd lived with his wife in Australia for a while. It took me some time 
to realize it must have been before the invention of cell phones.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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