Having just spent the last 5 hours trying to get hold of my in-laws for a case of child care emergency I need to vent some frustration and rant about parents and mobile phones.

My in-laws both have mobile phones, however, whenever I try to get hold of them I get the message ‘this mobile phone is switched off’.  What is the purpose of the phone?  My father in law takes great pleasure in telling me his mobile phone bill is £0.03 each month…..yes because it’s never near or on his person!

Why do the older generation have difficulty with the concept of a mobile phone?  And think that a mobile is only to be used in an emergency…..how would they know about the emergency with the phone switched off?  Do they switch their home phone off?

My mother has finally grasped the concept and does keep her phone on and with her, however, it took a while for her to work out how to grasp the technicalities of using it……one incident whilst I was driving, my phone was ringing and I asked her to answer it for me – “how do I answer”, “just say yes” was my response – mum then proceeded to shout “yes” very loudly into the phone!

Maybe someone should invent a phone for this tech un-savvy audience that cannot be switched off.

End of rant.