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An interesting day

After several months of thinking it over my friend who is 77 decided it was time to get a smart phone.  So we set out for town in the car.  We went to the shop run by his provider but was told by the young lady that she couldn't find any record of him from his number.  This could have been the end of the day out but instead we went to another shop across the road.  The young man there immediately found his records but said his first name was wrong.  My friend remembered that he had been called by that name by the provider by mistake when he first had a phone.  The young man said it was best to continue with that name as it would require lots of involved paperwork and proof of name and address.  So he remains Kevin!! Next we had to change his address which he had not done 5 years ago when he last moved. For that he had to produce passwords etc. I have learnt to turn the other way when he does this as he gets very flustered if I watch. He has a large collection of credit cards and gets very muddled about their pin numbers.  After a few false starts the phone was duly purchased and set up ready for use.  It had taken a long time to do all this and whereas we had intended to do some shopping we felt it was best to go straight home after the exhausting time coming to terms with technology.  At home we started off deleting lots of people from contacts, some deceased and some business contacts from years ago.  Then I left him to see what he could discover.  His son will be around later to help him.  But so far he has made a good start of bringing himself up to date with the modern world.  Bravo.

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