My Phone Is Talking Spanish

About 89% of 431 adults we polled from our subscriber base told us their older parents, aunts and uncles send them emails in all CAPS. I suspect this is a function of just getting older and doing the best they can just turn on the computer, so leaving the caps button on is the least of their challenges. Or maybe it’s an undiagnosed hand movement disorder that dates back to typewriter days when you actually had press down really hard on the SHIFT key.

The latest, from my own dad, is one for the ages: “BRY! MY PHONE IS TALKING SPANISH…I DIALED MY FORMER BOSS AND AN OPERATOR COMES ON THE LINE TALKING SPANISH!! HELP!“

Now I suppose I was a bit cruel responding “Que Pasa?” but in my defense I did solve the mystery. Turns out he was just calling the wrong number and that wrong number was to a Spanish speaking woman.