Frumpy Mom: I hate to talk on the phone

Let’s talk about the telephone, shall we? You’ll probably use one today, right?

And, if you’re like me, you’ll dig through your car frantically looking for it, using the flashlight app on your phone to search, before finally realizing that it’s been in your hand all along.

I only grudgingly ever started using a smart phone many years ago when our newspaper bosses handed them out to us like Halloween candy. They weren’t being generous, of course, they just wanted to have us on a leash. Until then, I’d been perfectly happy with my flip phone, which even a chimpanzee could operate in the middle of a hurricane.

When they first handed me the Android device , I was annoyed that I had to learn yet more technology. I am not a first adopter. I am a late adopter. I’d rather rub ground glass in