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“Guess who is using a calculator these days?” said my husband Bob, as he set down his suitcase just inside the front door. “My mother!”
No! Not the woman who stubbornly maintained that not while she had the brains God gave her . . .
This was back in the late 60s or early 70s when Bob was traveling on business trips that rarely took him in the vicinity of his parents’ Illinois home, and now he recounted the happy visit when he was able to give them one of the calculators his company issued and teach them how to use it.
“I wish you could have seen how delighted they were with their new ‘toy’ after I taught them how to use it.”
Pleasant reminder
I was reminded of that incident recently when I visited my son Tom and his wife in Colorado.