Judging by the number of comments, this frustration with new/personless technologies is a big deal. I manage to more or less avoid it in my cocooned retired life, but I can only imagine….
NOT being touched is the beginning of more bad outcomes than we want to admit. Technology driven customer service, now nearly everywhere, is another... yet we're in awe and proud of our passive aggressive abilities.
I love technology. When it works. When it doesn't, it's usually because I never take the time to fully learn and understand how something works but I won't take the rap for it. I blame it on what is not working for me at the time. My latest befuddlement: the damn parking meter app. Damn it! However, I do love it when my struggles with it occur on streets that are hemmed in by big buildings. My frustration most always results in a very loud temper tantrum tirade that's full of colorful language (read: a raging river of profanity). Something about the echoing of it off those buildings makes the frustration and anger wash away. Still can't get the stupid meter to work though.
I was sweating with you! A few years ago we went to get our son’s very fancy Ford Mustang out of storage because he was returning from deployment. The key fob did not work. It would not blink, nor chirp, not even a wink. The battery must be dead!, my husband and I declared. I trip to a nearby dealer made the fob happy. The fob blinked, it chirped, it winked. Back to the car, which still did not respond to the fob. Car battery must be dead! But how to unlock the car to open the hood? A half hour and a you tube video later, we discovered the mechanical key hidden in the fob. But where was the spot to insert the key? A half hour and a you tube video later, we discovered the hidden receptacle under a rubber gasket. All to say, touchless often equates to untouchable.
Clever, interesting and delightful!
This is droll. And how very oddly the machine expresses itself, so unaware of the ironies in its words. I love your simple, human conclusion.
Judging by the number of comments, this frustration with new/personless technologies is a big deal. I manage to more or less avoid it in my cocooned retired life, but I can only imagine….
NOT being touched is the beginning of more bad outcomes than we want to admit. Technology driven customer service, now nearly everywhere, is another... yet we're in awe and proud of our passive aggressive abilities.
I love technology. When it works. When it doesn't, it's usually because I never take the time to fully learn and understand how something works but I won't take the rap for it. I blame it on what is not working for me at the time. My latest befuddlement: the damn parking meter app. Damn it! However, I do love it when my struggles with it occur on streets that are hemmed in by big buildings. My frustration most always results in a very loud temper tantrum tirade that's full of colorful language (read: a raging river of profanity). Something about the echoing of it off those buildings makes the frustration and anger wash away. Still can't get the stupid meter to work though.
OMG - this is my life! We just acquired an airfryer/toaster oven. There is definitely a learning curve - and, yes, I am intimidated.
I was sweating with you! A few years ago we went to get our son’s very fancy Ford Mustang out of storage because he was returning from deployment. The key fob did not work. It would not blink, nor chirp, not even a wink. The battery must be dead!, my husband and I declared. I trip to a nearby dealer made the fob happy. The fob blinked, it chirped, it winked. Back to the car, which still did not respond to the fob. Car battery must be dead! But how to unlock the car to open the hood? A half hour and a you tube video later, we discovered the mechanical key hidden in the fob. But where was the spot to insert the key? A half hour and a you tube video later, we discovered the hidden receptacle under a rubber gasket. All to say, touchless often equates to untouchable.
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