What blew prisoners' minds about life outside after serving long sentences?

Marcelli was locked up for 20 years before he was in jail with me.

He got locked up again for beating up somebody who was talking crap at a bus station.

The guy he beat up was actually talking to someone else on a Bluetooth headset.

About 10 years ago, I was unemployed and went to one of those

employment centres looking for a job for the first time in a long time, which ended up basically

being some sort of internet cafe where you use the computers to job search, create resumes,

and other stuff. I sat down by an older gentleman who just stared into the screen with his hands

in his lamp. An employee came by and asked him if he needed help.

To which he agreed and stated he'd been incarcerated for about 30 years and had never used a computer.

She sat down and told him to use the mouse to move the cursor to an icon, etc, etc. This dude gave the

mouse a sharp jab with his finger like he was pushing an elevator button.

That slid the mouse across the mouse pad and onto the table. The look on the lady's face was

priceless when she realized she had to teach this guy how to use a computer from ground freaking

zero. She was puzzled where to even begin. My dad is a prison chaplain. One of his inmates had been in for about 30 years and got out last year.

My dad got a call from him a few days later.

Chab, did you know they have toilets that flush themselves?

My mother just got released after a 15-year prison sentence.

The weirdest thing to her is the cell phones.

She thinks it's crazy that everyone is

attached at the hip to their phones, and that you can look up anything in an instant. Also, gas

prices. They definitely threw her for a loop. She offered to gas my vehicle up because I helped

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