Kathleen: Did you see Pete showing Trinity his new iPad in church today?
Ben: Eye patch? Why the heck does Pete have an eye patch?
K: Not eye patch, iPad.
B: Oh, so now Pete has an iPad, too?
K: I dunno, maybe itâs not his. At least I think it was an iPad. It was a big, flat screen. Wait, wasnât he selling his iPhone? Maybe he upgraded to an iPad.
B (laughing): An iPad is not a phone. That wouldnât make any sense.
K: Well, whatever. It looked bigger than an iPhone.
B: An iPad is more like a digital board game.
K: A what?
B: A board game. I saw a kid using one on the plane on the way to Mexico. It looked fun. It looked kind of like Dr. Mario.
K: I donât know what that is. Does it having anything to do with the Mario Brothers?
B: Yeah . . . I think so. Itâs a game kind of like Tetris. Only with, like, coloured capsules.
K: Oh, I think I played that at my cousinâs one time. But anyways, now that I think about it, I think an iPad is more like a laptop. I remember people talking about it on Twitter. Itâs like a whole computer on one . . . thing. But it has no keyboard. The keyboard just . . . kind of . . . appears every once in a while. It works . . . like . . . magic or something.
The saddest part of this story? Ben and I are 28 and 26. We have since learned — kind of — what an iPad is. It is kind of like a magical laptop, right?
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LOL! My husband and I are in our 40′s and we have the same conversations. WE do have an iMac, but our phones are not ‘smart’… they’re more like 1 step up from a tin-can and string! We’re not quite Luddite’s, but we don’t get the ever growing obsession with the latest and greatest ‘just because’ it’s there.
LOL, love it. Keep in mind that although I do know what an iPad is, I still can’t figure out why one would want one. A piece of technology halfway between a laptop and a phone, but with the full capabilities of neither? How does that help??