Although in my eighties, I still consider myself one of the last of the cool dudes. I was taking my morning walk along a busy road, wearing my snappiest Hawaiian shirt, figuring I was looking quite with it, maybe even “In with the In Crowd,” when I paused, trying to get the Voice Memo working on my phone—not a flip phone, a new Apple. A car pulled over. The driver made his way across busy traffic to ask me, “Are you all right, sir? I saw you trying to work your cellphone. My father-in-law has dementia, so I was concerned.”
Jim DeFilippi is a prolific, eccentric author. Catch Jim's Podcast Blue Smoke and Black Ink on YouTube. His website is jimdefilippi.com.