[GH85Carrera]

I resisted a smart phone. I wanted a phone with a camera, and a saw no point in text messages. The camera was not much better than my old Kodak Brownie from grade school, but a little better than nothing. Then my dad gave me his old iPhone original to play with. It was no longer activated, but worked fine with Wi-Fi.

I swallowed the smart phone hook line and sinker. Soon I activated the iPhone and the old phone was given to the abused women's shelter as all phones will call 911, even if not activated.

My first time to really see the true handiness of a smart phone was when I went to a business that I had used for years, and they had a sign on the door, that they had moved. The address was on Grand Blvd. That street was the first street to encircle the city, back in the 1930s. An address can be about anywhere on that circle. I punched it into my iPhone and it took me there, turn by turn. My first ever test message was to my dad. I still have that text string to him even though he has been dead for many years. I have every text I have ever sent, and I only delete spam texts.

A few years back at Porsche Parade, we were on a bus returning from going to see Churchill Downs. My wife and I were discussing where we wanted to eat that night. I was looking at different restaurants close to the hotel and the couple sitting across from us perked up. The husband was in the no cell phone camp, and his wife had a dumbphone only. She started asking how I was looking up restaurants. I showed her the map, and it of course showed the area restaurants. I then show her the radar and the thunderstorm was going to miss our area. I then called the restaurant from the listing and made reservations for four, as we had invited them to dinner with us. We made new friends, and had a nice meal. She said as soon as they get home she is getting a smartphone.

I have an app called AirDisk Pro. It makes a "hard drive" on my phone for me to store any document from my computer on it. It has a password on top of the password to use my phone. It is a comforting way to back up important data and know I will have the phone with me at all times, so if the house burns down, or whatever, I will have that data. Not on the imaginary cloud, that is very hackable and has been hacked. It is on my phone and in my possession.