Tech-savvy Elder Gifts

Wife doing Internet banking & Online shopping, saying 'Darling, I'm just collecting my pension. Is there anything we need from the shops?'

Grandma is texting her grandchildren.

GPS For Boomers

'Well, of course Granddad tweets. He also grunts, snorts and burps.'

Stereo for the elderly

Grandad Prodigy

"Now take a nice picture of the postcard and send it to grandmother."

"You have reached your destination (for the 4th time tonight, I might I add?)"

Self-driving cars help senior citizens stay mobile.

'Social media makes things so much easier to be a gossip."

"My phone can be unlocked by facial recognition."

"This model was specially made for seniors."

The Hybrid

'His last Tweet was '#brianjohnson just about to die@dying.bit.ly.om'.'

Typewriters and Laptops.

"This little baby has Wi-fi, GPS, and bluetooth."

'You've got a text from the queen.'

'There's someone @ the door, dear.'

Memory Clinic: Today's Special - Passwords.

The dangers of modern technology.

The older I get, the more of my memory I outsource to Google.

So this is what civilization has come to at the dawn of the new millennium. Impressive, huh? What are you looking at? Nothing mother! Sigh! How come you get along better with my child than I do? We trade. She shows me all the crucial elements of pop culture. And I show her ... A life without Lady Gaga is still worth living! Phizzz.

Four years ago during a special episode of the Ask Sadie™ Show, our resident octogenarian asked listeners for advice about how she can deal with her midlife crisis. Dear Sadie, I was going to suggest you start a YouTube channel to share your advice with younger people. But YouTube just stabbed its content creators in the back. They stopped showing ads on videos discussing anything even remotely controversial. That's going to put so many important voices out of business. So I don't really have an

Help! I'm ROFL and ICGU!

'The Lord spake to Moses? You mean voice mail?'

"I'll be fielding any questions you may have and my assistant, Carol, will be googling the answer."

"And the meaning of life is.... oh rats, the battery died."

Having moved to a tablet, the farmer's wife was done with mice. . .

'You're texting? Wait--'

Facelift Book.

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Silver Surfer.

"I've gone electric, you should be too!"

"You're never too old to learn..."

I'm a child of the early 5o's who has found time in retirement to become tech savvy. You're a mid-century modern.