Not so technological

It’s a pretty common thought that us younger generations are the go-to people for technology questions and it’s assumed we know all about them because we basically grew up with it.

But for me, that’s usually the farthest thing from the truth.

I’ve never had too much luck with technology. My phones and i-Pods would do weird things, typing on their own and whatnot. One laptop would start spontaneously beeping, almost screaming, when it turned on.

Even my first car was problematic. It ran through headlights faster than one runs through tennis shoes. It ate a CD and then told me there was no CD. It triggered the starter when I locked the door.

But the kicker was when the AC had a mind of its own. I’d be driving along and all the sudden, I’d feel a cold blast of air at maximum power on my feet despite the air being turned off and to low power. Strange, right?

I still swear that car was struck by lightening at some point.

Or maybe I was. That would make a lot of sense...

Thankfully my current car is less...difficult. And my phone has only had one major temper tantrum, making me stuck in one app and refusing to do anything outside of that app aside from sending SOS alerts when I tried to restart it. Still dumbstruck by that incident.

I can figure out how to work things pretty well, can set stuff up or learn how something works pretty quick. But these curve-balls I get are just something else entirely.

They also make for a halfway-decent story. Good thing I have somewhere to share them.