With Todays Electronic Technology: For the 50 Somethings, Are they caught in an 8-track Abyss

Electronic gadgets, the new technology, I can take it or leave it. I usually am at least a year behind on the latest trends. You will never catch me waiting for hours on end for the latest this or that, on their release date. A must have for me, is a, I think not.. Hard sell here, which isn't based on ambivalence, but that of calculated fear. The fear of ignorance, this occurs when the only thing you know for sure about the product is, how to open the box, even then that task can be daunting. Whether the instructions are in English or not is, immaterial, all looks Russian to me. So, with ignorance, brand all, to total silliness, to mask the shame.



How to run these advanced marvels, definitely shows my age, I never conquered my VCR, let alone my DVD player, now laser-disc Blu-Ray. But never fear, I have a 11 year old and a 13 year old. This is why I had the kids, or should I say my wife had them, I had the important job, I coached at birth, naw really, its on my resume.

Hey, quit it, I am getting side tracked.

You know all the good birthing Doctors and Psychologists will tell you, you need to read to the baby. So, that is what I did, I read them all things techie... I figured I don't understand this stuff, they couldn't be any worse off than I.




But low and behold a miracle happened, it wasn't about a star in the east, no wise men or wise guys. But these children of mine, as time past, showed an aptitude for the new fangled, high tech, electronic gadgets, the same gadgets that made their father feel like a moron. Which according to their mother, doesn't take much...




A celestial star shown brightly as this revelation came to pass. Dear Lord, the clock on the DVD will quit blinking and of that on the Microwave, I need a moment of silence please in reverence to the event, definitely life changing, life altering experience... lol

Now when people ask, why did you have kids, my response shall will be without hesitation, the ability to vault my family into 21st century Electronic gadgetry... Now I have someone who can show me how to run the remote on the flat panel TV... Yea Me!!!!




For us Fifty somethings, the limitations of our age and generation, can become a bonding moment with our progeny. The family nucleus brought together, by an unlikely source, advanced Modern Electronic Technology.

You Fifty somethings out there, buy electronics, here of course... Buy it for America, for our economy and the restoration of the family unit...


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