At the grocery store yesterday, I hopped into a line that had one customer, just finishing up. I knew that my turn would come quickly. Then I waited and waited and waited while the cashier tried to help her operate the card machine. As she was starting to leave, I noticed that she had placed the cart behind her, so the bag boy couldn't start loading her cart until her transaction was completely finished.
When I got to the head of the line, I asked the cashier whether the machine was having trouble today or whether she was having trouble operating it. He said the machine was fine but she was having a little confusion.
Funny thing -- she didn't seem that much older than me, though her super-saturated dyed hair made her look older than I'm sure she was.
But the reason I didn't make loud sighing noises while waiting was that I know this is me in a few years. Technology seems to be whooshing past so quickly. So far, I've managed to keep up -- with cell phones, grocery store card machines, linkedin, blogging, twitter, and on and on. But I know it's not too long now before something comes along that just stymies me -- something simple and easy, albeit with a terrible UI. I will then be officially Too Old to Learn New Technology. I'm crossing my fingers that my TOLNT days are in the distant future, not just around the corner.
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We shall never be too old to learn new technology blaugustine! That's what we have tokeep saying to ourselves, even when sometimes we feel old. The zip on my handbag stuck at the check out in the supermarket and I felt 94 when the assistant had to unstick it for me - so I never used that bag again. We "getting oldies" must fight!!
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