Gate openers revisited

L to E, Victorville DP:


They just won’t listen to us innovators and other persistent critics who keep writin' Letters like this'n.

Recently I made reference to "survival systems interdependence” or lack thereof, admittedly overly complicated way of saying, “This bunch doesn’t talk to that ’n,” as an example citing instances where the power folk don’t communicate with the ’phone and water-heater people….The gate-opener folk who just don’t wanna listen to the inventor and lazy clod who pleads, “Pushbuttons? Why not just honk a coupl’a times? Then why hafta get out’a my car still again to close the thing?"

Though not a “survival" issue, when a copy of Time last year (snitched from the Doctor’s office) describes "Best Inventions 2016,” noting some of them as positively silly (being a putterer myself), I thought, “How about some cooperation between eyeglass makers and printers?” With so many captions in 2-point type—in white—against a dim background of faint color: how do you fellas expect anyone, much like an 86-year-old like me, to be capable of reading it without carrying 'round a handy mag'?

Even in Time itself, but for the past 20 years I’ve noted this deficiency in all the dozen or so Sunday fliers of our excellent Victorville Daily Press. InventiveLetters [Sp] Guys, where are ye all? Am I alone? Software progs esp.: Can’t you recognize ‘isd” as a misspelling of “is” ? Can’t you see how close ‘d’ and ’s’ ? And who the hell progged, “Automatically correct both spelling and grammar” ? Hit it once, and….

Mag' makers could talk to the printers too: Let’s tint a special mag' itself in contrast to the ad tints, makin’ ‘em look white on black? A six-year-old might have suggested this, much less an 86-year-old like me. Swanson vitamins: Over the years everyday a new Email, why not also give no. of tabs in the jar ?? so we can make price comps.

And oh, incidentally, you “Engineers” make everything too complicated for us “Innovators,” For instance with the Chicago Electric drillmotor, I’d push the lever to turn it on, but then remember you first hafta shove down the flap; and so I mamage to get it going; but to turn it off fiddling with no avail with the lever and flap , I remember I now need to push that yellow button at the bottom. So why not also have a screw you need to turn?

To Post-It:Grabbing one to check an Email add., I hafta pull it off the wall and hold up to the light then it close to my specs ! So why don’t you sell a special pak labeled with big letters: No dark ones

To Our Doctor: Promise, I’ll bring it back at our next visit 3 months hence.


Dale Hileman
Apple Valley