[Margaret Pilkington]

If you refuse to embrace some of the modern technology then you are looked at with mild amusement.
I was in Manchester before Christmas and was asked to put my name to a petition of some sort. I said to the guy 'right, where do you want me to sign?'
'Oh' he says ' you don't actually sign anything - you send a text message to this number'
I told him I couldn't do it as I had no mobile phone.
'How do you keep in touch with your friends? He asked.
'Haven't got any' I said.
I left him scratching his head. I wasn't sending any text messages so that I could be bombarded with advertising spam.

When I took my old(but bomb proof) Nokia phone to have a new SIM card put in(I act old and daft so that they transfer all my data onto the new card ) the girl was derisory about it and said I would need to change it to a new 'smartphone' sometime in the not too distant future.
I told her that when they bring out a phone that is smart enough to do my washing, ironing, and housework......I will be first in the queue for one. Till then they could stick 'em up their jumper.