# Continuing story/update - newly blind person (now age 92) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-story-update-newly-blind-person-now-age-92/976103 "2022-12-06T18:32:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-story-update-newly-blind-person-now-age-92/976103/18 "2022-12-07T14:47:22Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I keep my cell phone with me always, all it takes is one misstep. Smart. As do I. What is psychologically different is that we’ve all spent the last 20-ish years in constant electronic contact with the outside world. A situation utterly foreign to our parents’ generation. Every so often there’s a thread here about mobile phone usage & folks’ attitudes to them. A current one is: > [@Where's your phone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-your-phone/975526): > > Once upon a time, the phone hung on the wall in the kitchen or sat on a table in the living room or maybe even on the night stand. Then it went mobile, and before long, the musical question was “Where is my/your phone??” Do you keep yours on your person? Does it have a designated spot in the house? Do you randomly have to call it in order to find it? Since women’s pants are notorious for lacking pockets, I rarely have my phone on me. If we’re out and about, I have a pocket for it in my purse, … One of the interesting observations (to me at least) in each of these threads is the small minority of folks our age who _hate_ the idea of a mobile, whereas I find it the most convenient and most-used gizmo I own. Far handier than my microwave oven or refrigerator. To them it feels confining. Most all our parents probably thought that way. If you’re not connected while a middle-aged person, becoming forcibly connected later feels like being nannied. It’s a very tangible reminder of growing irreversible infirmity. Me, I feel sorta naked when not connected. I think our generation will have lots less of the stubborn “won’t wear an alarm” thinking. Though we may need that alarm disguised in the form of a simplified mobile with bigger, brighter, easier to read buttons. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-story-update-newly-blind-person-now-age-92/976103)._