Seeing my parents work their smartphones is just sheer hilarity. My mom just got rid of her flip phone and now has a touchscreen droid. Watching her text is cute, sad and hilarious all at once. She puts the phone on the table and uses her pointer finger to click each letter. It will take her about a minute and a half to send a text. Then when you get a text it's in jumbled sentences with "U" and "R" replacing "you" and "are." Somehow my mom also discovered some program to add smileys to her texts. Like really dorky ones that do motions and stuff. I feel like I'm back in the age of AIM when I text with my mom.
So my mom may not have completely mastered texting like a normal person but she seems to excel at using games on her phone. I made the mistake of introducing her to Words with Friends. Don't go thinking she's beating me or anything cuz I'm totally kicking her ass, but she will respond within two minutes of me sending a word. When we are in the same room she'll be like "Hey, hey, honey, did you get my word? Did you respond yet? Well why not?" Geesh, we are in the same room, why don't we just play scrabble?
My mom also seems to be taking full advantage of her cellphone's camera. Now she has a camera, not a fancy one but a good point-and-shoot one. She'll have her camera in her pocket but she'll whip out her cellphone so she can take a picture and mass text it to all her friends and family. It's really great when you're the subject of the photo. It's also great when you're the recipient...thank you mom, I was wondering if you bought boots today; that's nice, a teddy bear; oh Aunt Erin got her foot operated on, that's nice...HOLY FUCK how many stitches are in that thing?!?!
Parents, can't live with 'em, wouldn't be alive without 'em.
This. This is my life. Thank you. :P
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