Technology is great … when it works

A common theme of us elderly Rusters is frustration with the digital age.

It all seems so unfair that we are thrust into a world of apps and mobiles which are unreliable.

I was making a call to make a minicab booking yesterday when for no reason my phone cut out.

It turned out I had exceeded my spending limit of £10.

I had no idea I had a spending limit let all I exceeded it.

I have a printer with a payment plan to supply replacement ink cartridges. For 4 months they have taken payment but not sent any ink cartridges.

When I was obliged to buy one I received an immediate email by return that, as I was using unauthorised cartridges, “we cannot monitor your printer and therefore cannot send you any.”

My Amazon Prime does not function on my TV as ‘it is not supported’.

I have no idea what that means.

My techie advisor suggested that I bought an Amazon fire stick – allegedly capable of being delivered the same day by Amazon.

However, unfortunately, this was not so because the driver could not work my entry phone.

And so the saga continues.

Days that are going smoothly are wrecked by circumstances I cannot control.

The common denominator of all these travails is, of course, that you have to pay more money to the service provider to resolve them.

Growing old is hard enough – as the brain furrs up and the working parts begin to malfunction – without having to cope with unwanted stress from the digital age.