Technologically UnSavvy

     It used to be that I could tell people my
VCR was flashing “12:00” and they would immediately understand me to say, “I’m
a technologically impaired, lower-functioning member of the species.  Please have mercy on my oh-so-twentieth-century
soul.” 

     I’m still that person, but I wasn’t sure
about how to convey that nowadays, since most DVR box thingies don’t even show
the time.  If they did, I’m sure mine
would still be flashing “12:00”.  But for
lack of anything better, I used that same old line about the VCR flashing
“12:00” and realized that now it has even more impact, as my acquaintance
gasped, “My God, you still have a VCR?”