I feel old

Our granddaughter is with us at the moment as she often sleeps over from Friday to Saturday. We collected her from school yesterday afternoon and when we arrived back at our house she told us she had some homework to do.

I imagined spreading a few books and notebooks across the kitchen table, but Granddaughter told us she’d do her homework online on her phone, which she did. She showed me a few of the questions.

Online homework has probably been going on for some time, especially after the lockdown debacle, but it left me feeling old. I imagined what my mother might have said if I’d told her I was doing my homework on the telephone.

“Are you writing about telephones for your homework?” she might have asked. “Well there’s the phone box on the corner but you can’t do your homework in there, somebody else might want to use it.”

Oh well, times change. After looking at a few questions Granddaughter had to answer, I went back to reading my Kindle.