I am not known as a technical guru.
My mum thinks I can fix the VHS machine if she really needs to me to but it is he who helped create them that she always asks first. Things that need programming scare me and little things with flashing lights always look like they will break in my clumsy fingers.
However this doesn’t stop me wanting all the latest technologies, I hanker after them in the same way that others crave to invest in all that glitters, like exquisitie bracelets and alluring high-end rolex prices. When I ran the marathon I had a state of the art GPS running watch; I used the basic stopwatch function. My running buddy used to wipe tears from his eyes when he saw me hit start and stop and not even consider how to programme pace or distance.
Yet I was happy, I had what I wanted and it did what i needed.
Then along came IPads, I looked on in envy as others sat in cafes swiping at a square screen whilst I sadly unloaded my laptop and hunted around for a plug to pop in my cable. My IPad envy was overwhelming.
So I got one, I won it actually – which meant I was close to estatic.
I didn’t have a clue how to use it.
I managed to get it to play one episode of that pink buffoon Peppa Pig, a whole five minutes worth of airtime for the smaller version of myself to enjoy whilst travelling in the car.
Like me, BB has a taste for the technical, and like me she has no idea what to do with it when she gets it.
Five minutes passed happily, whilst I heard her croon in happiness as she sat in a car with her pals George and Peppa.
Then it ended and it all went wrong.
“More Peppa,” she demanded.
I tried to explain that I didn’t know how to do more, I tried to tell her it wasn’t my fault, and the technology was too much for me no matter how pretty the tablet looked.
BB decided she know knew what to do with the IPad.
She waited in silence, breaking it only for the occasionally sob of distress. We arrived home and as I looked at her through the mirror she stared back with a resolute glare, I could see she was planning something; I was naive as to what.
I hopped out of the car, eager to play with my new toy, I opened the car door to where my smallest was sitting and then watched mouth agape as my two day old IPad went flying through the sky landing screen down on a gravel drive with a sickening thud.
“Bad IPad, smash it, no Peppa” said my tantruming toddler.
I learnt a lesson, whilst I am technically inept, technology is not for two year olds.
easy come easy go so they say!! xx
Emma recently posted..How to entertain a teenager in cast.
noooooooo
I’ve had my heart in a my mouth a few times with our iPad. Z discovered the other day that he could operate the screen with his foot. He then tried to use both feet to jump up and down on it!
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Jumping in muddy IPads?
Ouch!
Whilst My Darling Son, aged 3 and a bit, has not knackered any technology (have I spoken too soon?)he did manage to exit Angry Birds and dial the emergancy services!
I simply dont believe it!
Oh no! Must stop giving mine my phone or the same thing will happen.
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My phone is cracked in twelve places . . . same culprit!
Oh no! I’d be distraught. Been saving up for one of these for too long. If I turned around and saw Dexter within an inch of it I’d be devastated. Lol. For some reason the Jaws theme tune is running in my head reading this
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LOL that is the theme tune to my life
Oops! Nightmare
I too am rubbish at anything techie – this may or may not have something to do with the fact I refuse to read instruction manuals… Who has time for that for goodness sake?!
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I like to use instruction manuels for the fire!
I am still waiting for the same outcome from my 8 year olds with their tablets! Not everything about modern technology is good!
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My seven year olds have tablets – one is cracked – I did it *shame*
I am such a techno phobe! Was that it? Was it broken beyond repair? Or did you slavage with sellotape?
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Sellotape! you genius!
Ouch! and ouch again!!!!
Sian recently posted..Dog and Hare
exactly
Noooo! I hope it had one of those tank like covers on it…
No cover!
Oh no, I’d blame Peppa
Emma recently posted..Tree Fu Tom
Me too!!!!
I once bought a family I-pad, apparently I am confused since it was really called the teenager I-pad and apparently I must wait for a new generation I-pad to be bought. And I may then be allowed to test touch screen technology of the I-pad that can now be re-called the family I-pad or perhaps even by then called the broken I-pad.
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Ow head hurts now!
Dare I even ask, insurance? ‘accidental’ damage? Maybe you can sue peppa pig for distressing Libby? Xxx
Insurance, and we claimed!
Nooo! *runs off to order that iPad cover I keep meaning to get but never get round to buying*
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run run run
oh well, the Apple shop is full of them. Get another?
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you buying?