Electronics Discussions

My cell phone sometimes drives me crazy, It has some small buttons on the side (they are almost flat) and when I inadvertently touched one I have accidently called someone, recorded a conversation, or screwed up one of the settings.

One day I somehow changed the password to get my voicemail. I also had some weirdo sending me text messages which I was getting charged for. Had to disable the texting to stop it!

I needed a Harmony Remote to sync up the basement plasma TV, blu-ray player, and surround sound.  I just couldn't figure out how to turn the damned thing on until we got that universal remote. 

I do okay with our iPhones and GPS devices, though. 

Any of my chidren's toys! 

Have you ever had to spend the night in a hospital hooked up to fancy equipment which BEEPED all the time.  Trust me, it can be very annoying, especially at night when you are trying to sleep.  Then, you just get to sleep and someone wakes you up to take your blood pressure!  I appreciate their concern but I also cheer for same-day surgery!

My answering machine always puts me on alert.  I'm not a phone person anyway, but when my Mom was dying I'd receive multiple calls (many from her) and go directly into fight-or-flight mode.  The fact that I can monitor calls or just turn the machine down for hours at a time add up to its positive qualities.

Actually, there are times when I think I'd like to NOT have a phone.  But don't worry.  I'm not about to suggest a revival of the pony express as replacement for the USPD.

My 7 yr old will ask for help w/ one of his video games (usually a Spongebob or baseball game) & I have no idea what to do! Very frustrating.

AnnaBanana said…

Have you ever had to spend the night in a hospital hooked up to fancy equipment which BEEPED all the time.  Trust me, it can be very annoying, especially at night when you are trying to sleep.  Then, you just get to sleep and someone wakes you up to take your blood pressure!  I appreciate their concern but I also cheer for same-day surgery!

 

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I think the people who make IV pumps and scanners in hospital settings must have NEVER been a patient themselves. I used to work 12 hour nights as a nurse. My unit is oncology with intermediate and critical care patients as well as bone marrow transplant patients who might be there for weeks, so we give a LOT of medications.

Now we have to scan each medication, and it sounds like the scanner at the grocery store. Even though I work days now, sometimes my patient will actually fall asleep. I used to be able to tell them what medications I would be hanging in the next hour or two and sneak in and quietly start medications while the patient slept. Now, it's BEEP to identify the computer, another BEEP for the medication bar code and another BEEP for the armband. And that's if they all pick up the first time.

I feel for any patient who is actually trying to rest in the hospital these days. I understand the safety reasons for all of the computerized charting, but it can be rather frustrating for the nurse and patient.

We also have heart monitors on our unit, and when people use cell phones or anything else that might use similar waveforms (like a Furbie!), it can affect the reading on the heart monitors. That can be really frustrating because we often do not know that someone is using a cell phone since we have signs posted everywhere asking people to turn them off.

Oh I wish you hadn't gone there.  There isn't an electronic device on the market that I can work and that includes my watch.  I have a two button radio as my alarm clock that is 30 years old, sometimes I cannot work that.  I am not mechanically inclined and every item from the toaster to the toilet is a problem for me.  However, where I fail in this department, I make up for in others, I am an accomplished musician, teacher, freelance writer, working on masters degree in music with a 4.0 gpa, member of Alpha Theta Kappa, own a jewelry business, CEO of The Finders Group, I am an artist and I write reviews for the Anniston Star, but I cannot play a video game, work a dvd player, cd player, barely can work my phone which is a razor.  I can answer my phone, but have trouble sending messages or even answering messages.  LOL

Isn't it funny how one can excel in certain areas and feel completely inept in another? I love your great post, Piano-Jane. It makes me laugh!

LOL!  I can relate.  When we packed last year to move the stopwatch was apparently set to going off periodically on a daily basis.  We would hear it when it went off in the new house but it took several days to actually FIND it! 

I don't think I could ever write an article on how to move other than to give people ideas on what not to do! Those stopwatches don't go off for very long and I can see you guys poised and ready to run to find it, BayouBengal!

One of the most irritating things around now is the cell phone. They are taken to class, they are used on the road, in church, and a million other places they have no business.

I have a cell phone that I rarely even turn on unless I'm going to be out and the kids are at school. I only give the number to family and people that might need to contact me for an emergency, but I think I'm very much in the minority in how I use my cell phone.

Katrena said…

How many of you have electronic devices that drive you nuts. It looked simple enough when you bought it but adjusting settings, etc. is not at all user friendly? Please tell me that some of you guys have problems with at least one electronic device.

I have a stopwatch, of all things. Somehow, one of the kids pushed enough buttons to make it beep about once an hour. I've resorted to storing it in a far room in the house because I cannot seem to get it out of that mode.

Anyone else?

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I have a Casio watch that I bought for my one trip to Colorado.  It works okay but setting the date and changing the time during Daylight Savings Time are two tasks I have never mastered, and it has a stopwatch function that doesn't stop or reset when I want to.

I feel your pain, Fardreamer!