Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Annette Kurten wrote:
> > O.K group I can use a computer, but as you obviously see I do not
> > know of their workings.I am not young, and like most older people
> > tend not to pick up all this techno stuff as easily as some of you.
>
> I see that (age, older person) as an excuse often, and I don't
> understand it. I might have to ask my granddaughter what it means.
>
> Why can't older people understand "techno stuff"? My 85 year old
> mother has no problem using her computer, her _first_ computer, that
I
> bought her as an 80th birthday present.
>
> --
> -bts
> -Old retired guy.

Annette sounds like my mother. "I keep forgetting and can't learn new
things because I'm old. You'll understand when you get older".

Problem is, she's been using that excuse from the time she reached the
ripe old age of 30!