I do not have an I-phone, Android, etc., etc. I have the old flip-phone, AND IT’S NOT BECAUSE I’M OLD!!! (well, maybe a little bit) However, the problem of touch is the real culprit. You see, when others show me their kids at school, their friends in the bar, the latest cake, etc., on their phone and I am instructed to just move the pictures with my finger….nothing happens! I repeat, nothing happens. They repeat the request, over and over again, then it becomes a task, ‘press gentle, press and slide, push lightly and slide’ and on and on. Then they just TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME like I’m a little kid, and do it themselves!

I don’t consider myself THAT weird, at least I didn’t until I found that none of my friends, or relatives suffer from the same malady. They can take their wonderful phones and go anywhere in the world with just a gentle shove, push, touch,… whatever. I am grounded to my flip phone, which serves me well, except when I have to constantly remember what series of the alphabet is on what number when I text. I type over 100 words a minute, on a computer….not my phone. Now I do know and admit that when I wear some watches, they stop! My mom had the same condition, or talent. I cannot curl my tongue, I cannot wiggle my ears, and I cannot trill. I guess this will follow me all the days of my life…..and I will dwell in the darkness of ‘flip’ land forever.

I am damn good at writing backwards and upside down, however!