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The best thing about memories…is making them.
And what could be more memorable
than teaching my eighty-something father
to use a Square credit card reader
on a smartphone?
Imagine the possibilities.
Possibility #1:
“Andra, I was trying to go through everything you showed me on Linda’s smartphone, but I dropped it in the toilet before I could remember how to turn the dang thing on.”
Possibility #2:
“Andra, I accidentally charged some guy ten thousand dollars for one of your books. I told him your writing really was that good, but he wasn’t convinced. Can you come and bail me out of jail?”
Possibility #3:
“I didn’t realize that smartphone had a camera. I don’t know how them naked photos of me and your mother wound up on the internet.”
*SHUDDER*
I couldn’t unleash the Dad-and-smartphone combo onto an unsuspecting world. NOBODY deserved memories they’d have to scrub from their brain.
I came up with a different plan, borne of memories from my childhood.
Dad used to carry a spiral-bound notepad everywhere he went. He scribbled contacts and phone numbers on every page, information he used to keep his plant stocked with wood. By the time he filled a notebook, the cover was gone and the corners were frayed from use.
The man knew how to use a notebook.
So I bought my father a present: a pack of spiral-bound notepads, only I made one alteration. On each page, I wrote out the information he’d need to get from each customer. I would process the sales from the information he obtained.
Not a foolproof plan, certainly, but one that might bring him success most of the time AND keep naked images of my parents OFF THE INTERNET.
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