Attribution: Grj23, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes how Phyllis struggles to maintain the keeper’s tentative grip on technology, showing him on a daily basis how to do the simplest things, like retrieve messages or save images.
There has been discussion as to whether the keeper’s need to be shown something repeatedly is due to his simply starting to “lose it” or whether he is subconsciously resisting involvement in a tech world that he hates?
Let the record show that the keeper was once with the “in” crowd that made fun of “low tech” codgers. It was back when electricity was first being wired to farms and an elderly neighbor worried that electricity would “leak out” the end of an unprotected wire unless it was taped up.
The keeper remembers hearing the adults laughing about the old neighbor’s electrical naivete and accepting the judgement therein.
Electricity leaking out? How dumb!
Phyllis, can you help me retrieve this damn email?
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