Too Old to Learn a New Toaster
We have a new toaster. The old toaster died. No one remembers when we got the old toaster. Was it 19 years old, a wedding gift? Was it a more recent addition to the kitchen? I have zero memory of how our old toaster came to live on our kitchen countertop.
The new toaster is the simplest toaster we could find. It does not do anything fancy. It is not a combination air fryer toaster. Yet it has too many knobs. Too many choices. I am too old to learn a new toaster.
I think I’m just going to skip toasting things from now on.
I should add that I have lived with Josh for almost 20 years and have yet to learn how to turn on the television. Once upon a time, I wrote out instructions. But I lost them. So if I want to watch something, I need to ask someone to turn it on and find the channel. It’s totally okay. I just skip watching television.
I know I could learn these things. I am capable. But something in me whispers, “I don’t want to” whenever the subject is broached.
A person can live without toast or television.
Something about having a new appliance made me want to walk around the house saying, “New toaster, who dis?” The ChickieNob pointed out that if a person gets a new phone, they transfer their contacts, so they would obviously know the new caller. And if they lost their phone and had to get a new phone with a new number, the caller wouldn’t know the new number unless they had been told by the phone owner. So the whole thing falls apart if you think about it too much.
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I get it. We recently had to replace our toaster as well, and I bought the absolute lowest-tech version I could find because I don’t want to deal with the extra features. I get annoyed every time Apple does an update to iOS, or when I have to buy a new iPhone, because I don’t like little changes to items I have grown accustomed to using.
I’m laughing because we recently had to replace our toaster oven (we multitask our small appliances) and we ended up with one that it also an air fryer. It had way too many knobs and controls and it took me weeks to decide to learn how to work it. In the meantime, though, Husband was making us a lot of yummy and healthy veggies.
Yes to all of this. I don’t want to learn new things to replace things that were easy so I also just skip them. The wireless function of our printer stopped working and I just plug it in when I need to print, or find a way to avoid printing. It is probably something that could be fixed but it’s too much. I will plug it in or not print.
Yes. Our newish toaster requires that bagel halves be placed with the inside out. What??
I feel that way about some things at work…I am by no means a tech imbecile. But I’m kind of meh about using OneDrive. Like, my brain is full and I have enough programs to remember how to use. I know it’s not hard but for some reason the way we have it set up it takes probably several more steps to log on than it should…so, meh. Also, the kids’ distance learning stuff…I just let my 8 yo navigate if I need to view something on Seesaw, etc.
LOL… this is timely! I was on a Zoom call on Saturday night with about 15 members of my high school graduating class (of 1979). We’ll all turn 60 next year, and some of us are, shall we say, more conversant with computers & technology than others. It was kind of funny getting everyone onto the call & familiar with how to use the Zoom features (like muting & unmuting).
Our toaster died a couple of years ago, about a year after we moved into our condo. It was the same very basic Proctor Silex model that FIL bought for dh’s graduate student apartment (in the early/mid-1980s)… so it had been well used! We got a Hamilton Beach model at Walmart that accommodates bagels and has a pullout crumb tray, but that’s about as fancy as we felt necessary to get.
Our TV remote (not the one that came with the TV, but the one that connects to the cable box) died about two years ago and we had to get a new one from the telecomm company. We never set it up properly and so we actually have to go over to the TV & press the button underneath the screen to turn it on & off. One of these days I’ll pull out the instructions & try to do it again properly… We still haven’t hooked up our DVD player in the four years since we moved here… we don’t use it that often anyway, but it would be nice to have it ready to go if the impulse strikes…! We got a new TV & switched cable providers when we moved, so it’s an entirely new/different setup than we had at the house. This is when a teenager would come in handy…
I am chuckling at this. You may have prompted another post of mine though. But no, life without toast is too horrible to think.