dizzojay: (Dean)
dizzojay ([personal profile] dizzojay) wrote2015-03-08 10:33 pm

I'm such a bad daughter!

I've just spent a lovely weekend on the Isle of Wight, visiting my parents.

One of my major aims during my regular visits there is to drag my technophobe father into the 21st century.  This has been a long and laborious process which has been slightly more painful than pulling teeth with a pair of rusty pliers, and it's far from over.  It's been made more difficult as they have no broadband (they have no computer), and the Isle of Wight is blessed with a mobile phone signal which I'm convinced is powered by a three-legged hamster on a turbine.

But at Christmas, I finally convinced him to upgrade his mobile from the prehistoric brick he has been using for about the last five years to something with a camera - we haven't got as far as smartphones yet - and this weekend I took his new phone down to him and together we introduced him to the delights of receiving photos, taking photos and texting them.

Unbeknownst to me, however, his new phone has Tetris on it.  Something he discovered purely by accident this morning while I was out at their local leisure centre having a Sunday morning swim.

And now he's totally and utterly, hopelessly addicted.

Whoops!

[identity profile] kinkthatwinked.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Couldn't be helped. If it wasn't Tetris, it would have been Solitaire, or Angry Birds.

At least your father likes his phone. :)

[identity profile] dizzojay.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, he certainly does.
I think my Mum is starting to regret I ever bought the bloody thing though :)

[identity profile] milly-gal.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
*Grins* It could've been worse, it could've been Angry birds O_o lol!

[identity profile] milly-gal.livejournal.com 2015-03-15 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god NO it's SO addictive!

[identity profile] jj1564.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee hee, the hidden dangers of modern technology!

[identity profile] dizzojay.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
He will never again be able to nag me for glancing at my phone every five minutes!

[identity profile] jj1564.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true!

[identity profile] metallidean-grl.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Tetris. One of the first computer games I ever learned. I loved Tetris. At least he is becoming more familiar with the phone through a computer game, right??

[identity profile] dizzojay.livejournal.com 2015-03-09 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's what I call finding the positives :)
I love Tetris too; it must be in our genes!!