A funny story without a political reference

[Septua]

I signed up at DU mostly for the opportunity to bitch about Trump and MAGA assholes but this post is just about septuagenarians vs technology...

My work has always been along the technical side of whatever work I was doing. I bought my first computer kinda' early on, mostly to speed up record keeping. Bought a Bellsouth "bag phone" as soon as I could afford one, moved on to flip phones when they came out and went to iPhones when 4's were available. Just recently bought a 16, figuring it will be the last one I'll ever need... But the story is not about me, so much as my Wife.

And let me make it clear up front, this is not in any way a disparaging jab at my Wife's intelligence. She's smarter than me, just not so much into into computer and smartphone navigation.

She took a while warming up to computers and smartphones...didn't want to surf the Net, didn't want to text. At some point I talked her into a smartphone which was a hand-me-down of the old 4, I had replaced with a 6. But she still wasn't smartphone 'woke' with the 4. But both our kids were in professions where computers and smartphones were a necessity and Mom began to get interested in iPads though our Daughter...and at some point, she decided she wanted an iPad. And that iPad opened up an exciting new world of stuff she is into, like sewing, cooking, decorating etc. She starts her day with coffee and whatever stuff she looks at on the net. When her day is done, she sits in the recliner messing with the Pad and watching TV.

Talk about a metamorphosis...

When something with the phone or Pad does come up, She brings it to me for answers or explanations. One day last week she brought the Pad in because the "in box" on her email service wasn't showing some emails she'd been sitting on for literally years. She keeps some stuff for future reference or sentimental value and they had disappeared.

Now, I can do what I do on a Mac with a keyboard and touchpad and can Google to find a fix most of the time but iPads are like a foreign language that I don't speak. I fiddled with it a little and didn't have a clue how to diagnose what was going on. But at some point I clicked on the "all mail" box and saw a total number of 78,000...yes 78,000 emails, dating back to 2012...WTF???

I could go on with more story but the explanation for the 78,000 was the fact the "MAIL" settings for discarded emails had been set to "Archive" rather than "Trash." She had been clicking the single icon on the toolbar that resembled and was assumed to be, the trash can but it wasn't the trash can. I had to Google a while before finding where and what to do with MAIL and iPads to get the actual "trash" icon.

And of course, I'm the lucky winner for the job of deleting the archived 78,000 emails. I got 25,000 into the trash bin tonight...only 53,000 to go.

[Karadeniz]

1. I COMPLETELY identify with your wife !!!!