80-something year olds are thought to be unable to adapt to new technologies.  I’d like to think I am an exception. but I was disabused of that notion when I finally decided to replace my five-year old phone.

The salesperson told me my new i-Phone was not all that different than my old phone.  Well, it may be that I have changed more than the i-Phone, but it wasn’t so easy for me.

Thus, I found myself at the Apple store Genius Bar on a rainy Saturday morning for a beginner’s class.  It turns out that in my ten days of owning the phone, I had learned a few fundamentals, so I was a bit ahead of the only other student, a female of my generation.

Nonetheless, I learned a few more basics and some tricks that I will probably never use.

Unfortunately, there is no higher-level class so until I see a grandchild…

I’m on my own.