Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks

We all heard that saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and I sure that this applies to many things that our bodies will just not allow us to do anymore as we get up in age. But there are some things that this younger generation has been doing for awhile that us older adults “can” learn to do and it fit right into our everyday life.
No I’m not talking about running a 100 mile marathon, start mountain climbing, bungee jumping  or trying to get by on one hour sleep a night, but something that many teenager’s have been doing for several years now. It’s texting, that’s right texting!

Now going back a few years ago when I still had a couple of teenagers living at home and I got them cell phones, the first thing they wanted was to text. Now mind you this was a “Phone” and they wanted to “Text” because all there friend’s was doing it. I just scratched my head then about this strong desire they had for texting and thought to myself “Teenagers” give them something they can make calls on and they want it mainly for texting, GO FIGURE!!!!!

Then as time went by I started to receive some texts message from my family and friends and I thought are they trying to act like a teenager’s. Now I did start trying to reply to some of those texts, and again I will say tried because I had a hard time using the number keypad to spell words on the Moto Razr I had at the time. But when I became eligible for an upgrade with U.S. Cellular I got a Moto Q Smartphone that had a keypad that had numbers and “LETTERS”. So I was now able to reply and send text messages with ease.

Since then I have upgraded my phone again with U.S. Cellular to an Android Smartphone which makes texting even simpler because you can now speak your text. That’s right, you can just say it and send it if you don’t want to take the time to type it. Now how cool is that!

Although I now send and receive several text and picture messages a month, I will have to admit that I still don’t come anywhere close to the amount my teenagers would do monthly. But I have to say that I do enjoy texting and being able to send a picture message. I do still talk on the phone but having this option of texting is something that has become a part of daily life style now.

So I give Thanks to all the teenagers for leading the way in this new form of communication and teaching this older dog a new trick.

Ok, for the next new trick for me to learn…How about Bungee Jumping….NOT!!!!!  lol

John ~ U.S. Cellular Customer Crew Member