Putting the "mudgeo" in "curmudgeonly"
I believe I may inadvertently (read: totally on purpose) be one of those people who secretly likes to give the people at The Source a hard time by being (knowingly and proudly) absolutely clueless about electronics.
This includes referring to every port on my television as "thingy", asking for things such as "I need the thingy that makes my phone thingy better... the long kind..." or "I need a thingy to plug into the phone thingy to make it two things...".
I think this goes with the fact that all of my electronics are old-people electronics:
rotary phone: check
record player: check
television with no AV input: check
young people have old people needs too...
today I might go try to find "TeeVee antenna" and a new "lazer mouse thingy, the small kind, mine doesn't light up anymore... but it was free". Becky got a portable TV she found and I'm jealous that she gets to watch that CBC.
I think if I went there for any of my more sophisticated electronic needs (DSLR, MacBook etc) this wouldn't be a problem, I think the problem is that they have all those little boxes with bits to fix things and I still like to call them "Radio Shack".
Maybe it's that I'm secretly my grandmother and I just don't believe that old things should be obsolete (although for what it's worth the does have XF Radio because she "just can't stand all that hippy hop).
This includes referring to every port on my television as "thingy", asking for things such as "I need the thingy that makes my phone thingy better... the long kind..." or "I need a thingy to plug into the phone thingy to make it two things...".
I think this goes with the fact that all of my electronics are old-people electronics:
rotary phone: check
record player: check
television with no AV input: check
young people have old people needs too...
today I might go try to find "TeeVee antenna" and a new "lazer mouse thingy, the small kind, mine doesn't light up anymore... but it was free". Becky got a portable TV she found and I'm jealous that she gets to watch that CBC.
I think if I went there for any of my more sophisticated electronic needs (DSLR, MacBook etc) this wouldn't be a problem, I think the problem is that they have all those little boxes with bits to fix things and I still like to call them "Radio Shack".
Maybe it's that I'm secretly my grandmother and I just don't believe that old things should be obsolete (although for what it's worth the does have XF Radio because she "just can't stand all that hippy hop).