Just call me a technophobe. I’m still using 8-track tapes, cassettes, and 33 and 45 records. I have real music that I can understand. What is up with this boom, boom, boom, that they call music?
CDs and iPod’s
CDs I can do without. The claim is the sound is better, but I beg to differ. It’s just another way to make money selling the CD player. And to stick that new gadget in my ear, called an iPod is out of the question. I’ll be losing my hearing soon enough, without blowing it out with that iPod.
Cell phones
For me to buy a cell phone is like asking me to stick my head in a microwave oven. I heard that using a cell phone causes brain tumors. They are hazardous to your health.
Have you read about how many people who are talking on a cell phone while driving cause accidents? And many users are so disrespectful. Instead of turning their cell phones off, you might hear one go off at a funeral or in class. On the bus just the other day, a woman was talking so loud on her cell phone, she sounded as though she was in a deep hole, screaming for help.
What can be that important, that you see some people on their cell phone leaving home, driving, at the bus stop, walking from class to class, and of all things eating lunch or dinner? This sounds like an addiction to me. Aren’t phone calls suppose to be personal? I don’t want to hear your conversations.
Telephone features
I have a telephone, minus the entire annoying features, of caller ID, call-and-wait, caller return, and blocking, which costs extra money. I couldn’t care less who’s calling me; if I do not recognize the caller, it won’t cost me a dime to just hang up. The most annoying feature is call-and-wait. This is a feature that I have no control over; however, if you call me and put me on hold for more than 30 seconds, I’m hanging up.
Cable television
Just give me basic cable television! The cable companies bug me constantly, to ask me to up grade my cable service. No way. What do I up grade it to? There are duplicate programs. Channels 10 and 18, 8 and 11, 3 and 5, and 35 and 72, all have the same programs. So do I up grade to triplet programming??
VCR vs DVD
There is nothing wrong with owning a VCR; the DVD is just another way of making you spend money. I have many of the old videos and I refuse to trash them for the DVD.
Tivo
And Tivo? Give me a break, if I miss a line or two, when I go to the bathroom, so what. Big deal, so the Tivo allows me to rewind to what I missed.
I’m not spending any money doing that. I can always wait on the summer reruns.
Computers
Bill Gates, you are doing a great thing giving your billions away to needy people, however, I cannot contribute another dime.
You are constantly adding more features, for more money. I’m sticking to my 4.0 Windows.
The library, and my good old encyclopedia have always been a great source for research, and information. The computer is too much of a crutch for children.
The library and encyclopedia would be ideal for their use. Don’t think you’re doing children any favors, Bill Gates.
Microwave instant answers are only making them lazy. They need to exercise and use their brain, to develop and expand their learning skills.