Older generations, who are the, I don't use computers, people of your time?

My grandparents are very old-fashioned even for their generation, if it counts.

My grandfather worked as a grocery manager for years.

He finally quit when his small mum and pup store buckled down on bar scans and electronic cash registers.

He was convinced that barcodes were going to be the Mark of the Beast from Revelations, and that if people use computers to

access adult content, then all computerized items must be banned. So there's that. When remote

control TVs came out, I suggested that my father buy one, and he said,

It will be a cold day in hell when I'm too lazy to tell one of you boys to get up and change

the channel for me. It was such an amazing sentence that I committed it to memory, and I still

remember it word for word 50 years later. From his point of view, he already had a remote control TV. Why

should he pay extra to have it automated? Exactly. He would have had us act out Game of Thrones

before getting a subscription to HBO. My mom was just telling me about when answering machines were

new and how people were so fearful of them and refused to leave a message. She got promoted

at a job because she didn't mind calling clients and leaving messages. I bought my grandmother an answering

machine in 2005. She refused to get one before that, despite several of her children begging her to

invest in one. I got her a $10 one from Walmart. I told her that I'd set it up for her,

and she asked me where it was. She was under the impression that answering machines were about

the size of a toaster oven. After some questions, I also learned that she objected to getting one

for so long because she was concerned about how much counter space she thought it would take up.

But she also used the same

bathwater for a week at the time and kept her hearing aid batteries, all of them, not just the ones

she wasn't currently using, in the freezer, so they would last longer. So who knows? Some of the

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