I enjoyed an Instagram interview with CCM artist Colton Dixon today, in spite of our time getting rudely interrupted by nagging technical issues.
I’m very familiar with said issues, as I seem to have them daily. And while it’s easy to connect these faux-pas to my extreme boomer-ism, I contend we’re all in this boat at some level.
I’m talking about both extremes of the techy spectrum here, from bonified IT guys to, well, me. And everybody in between. Do you know anybody at all who never has a technical snag?
It could be anything from usernames to passwords, from software quandaries, to sluggish internet and Wi-Fi failures. We all run into technological mix-ups and fix-ups.
But gratefully, here’s what levels the playing field, and in this regard we’re all the same. When our phones or devices take on a mind of their own, at some point we all end up in identical positions.
We push buttons until something works.
And once it does, we proceed with business as usual. We usually don’t even know or even care what we did to fix it. All we know and care about is it works, using the tried and true, age old method.
It’s called “Poke and hope.”