Grandpa and Technology

A funny story about my grandfather and technology.  When I was a kid, technology was having cable TV in your house and a tape player in your car.  My grandfather was not up on this type of technology.  If something happened to his cable TV and he couldn't watch the National News every night, he wasn't happy.  Often the problem was simply turning the cable on using a different remote (something that still plagues many of us!).  But, if this happened we had to go over to his house and get everything set-up for him to watch the news because staying current was so important to him.

Along the same lines I remember being in the car with him one day and talking about how he liked to listen to tapes.  He asked me if it would be hard to install a tape player in his car.  I said "Grandpa, you already have a tape player in your car.  It's right here."  He was so thrilled that he had one already.  I'm not sure if he ever used it, but at least he knew he had it.  And, it made me look like a super smart grand daughter ;)