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Grandpa
Kirkpatrick and my Cell Phone
My cell phone made a small sound notifying me that a new Text Message
had arrived and along with it was a photo that my sister really wanted me to
see. Then just as I tried to open it… my
cell phone did some weird things and died! Sheesh. It was only 18 months old.
The dude at the Cell Phone kiosk told me that others had experienced
similar things with this exact phone as well. But it was only 18 months old!! “Yes”
he replied to my exasperation, “that means the phone is very old nowadays.” And it was now just passed the warrantee time
by about a week!!! Double SHEESH! It
would take $25 to send it to the factory to be looked at, and maybe over $100
to $175 to repair it!!!
Hokey Mokey – 18 months it is out of date and old.
I am 69 years old – that is 67 years and 8 months older and still
function very well – thank you very much.
BUT at 69 years old a whole new learning curve is taking place last
evening and this morning again… how to turn it on, how to find stuff, how to
not do some things that blow the cell phone’s exasperation and it signals back
that I cannot do that action. Good Lord – it feels like this new one has a mind
of its own!
And that is life… what is familiar to me or has become that way –
changes. Stuff that I enjoy and come to
take for granted goes to a happy hunting ground. Poof it is gone!
The best part is that there just happened to be a super duper sale on
right now… and discounts galore… and for a mere $25 I had a fantastically new
and more power wielding Cell Phone! No
kidding – it worth a bundle more than I paid for it… and does a hundred times
more than the last one! I have the
P-O-W-E-R now! Kazam… kaboom… oh yah!
I can’t wait to show my Grandkids what I have now in my possession.
The young dude at the Kiosk in the Mall showed me and assured me that
all the things that were on the other telephone are now on this new one. It was
all transferred over. But it will take
some time to find everything!! Oh boy.
When I came into this old world my Grandfather Kirkpatrick was a “Line
Man” for the telephone company in the area they lived – in southern
Saskatchewan. He was responsible to put
up new telephone poles and wire the lines. He made sure that everything was
right all along the lines – and that the signals were good and wiring was
perfect for the old Hand Cranked wall mounted telephones in each farm house.
Do you remember that kind… there was a crank on the side of the oak box
telephone hanging on the wall? To call
someone you cranked their ring… ie. Two long cranks and one short was the
nearest neighbor… three longs and two shorts were the guy two miles away. And
all the phones along the way and on that line could hear the sound of the bells
in their phones… as neighbor A was calling neighbor D… and sometimes neighbors
C and E listened in on the conversation to keep up with the gossip.
I was a boy when that happened.
Now the bells in my cell phone sound an incoming text message from some
other part of the world. Within a split
second I can look at what the other person is seeing on their dinner plate.
There is way more stuff in my small computerized cell phone than the
first rocket and space craft to the moon landing ever had… and it is in my
pocket.
I have to remember to shut if off during funerals and weddings… and not
take it into Lang Pioneer Village where the folk of 1856 had not yet seen a
phone of any kind.
Hey did you know that this crazy little cell phone can speak to my
computer now without wires… and to my Tablet and to my TV… and within in
seconds I can watch videos and see photos that the cell phone took… on all the
other three apparatus??? And with
another click our friends in Korea and Indonesia can see them as well… for
free!!?!
Grandpa Kirkpatrick might just be saying, “Jimminee Cricket!” now if he
was alive.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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