Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 29, 2018

If Frank wants to listen to music, he’ll use his hand-crank Victrola.

This sort of joke has been making the rounds of the comics page for over ten years now. Is this really the first time Luann has done it?

Oh that’s okay Frank. Your daughter probably doesn’t know how to use a dial phone.

What do you mean. “What’s a dial phone?”

The Generation Gap, 2018 Edition!

Not particularly funny (since as someone stated, it’s a pretty old joke) but at least it’s true to life. Though it makes me wonder: just how old IS Frank? Because I’m no spring chicken myself yet I’ve managed to adapt to new technology. Phones were just phones back in my youth as well.

Some of us who don’t see small screens that well just stick with old land lines. When medical science gets smart enough to repair damage from macular degeneration, maybe I’ll think about a smart phone…

He probably selected a ring tone that sounds just like the old rotary dial phones. And the numbers on his dial pad are probably in a circle. Also, for when he’s away from the house, there is probably a coin slot on the side so it can be used in lieu of a pay phone.

Get your mitts off that device, kid! There’s a reason I don’t download apps.

What would have Luann done forty years when there for no cell phones.

….he has an expensive smartphone just to make phone calls? :\ i had a phone to just make calls on but it was a cheapo flip phone model.

That’s what I use my phone for. That and texting.

Yep, this is yet another “Luann is cool because she knows latest tech, fashions, music, etc, etc, while her dorky dad is uncool because he still uses the old stuff” strip. Only this time, both father and daughter are stumped about the reasons for having a phone.

That’s the exact opposite of my mother’s phone. She has over one thousand photos and videos on her phone, and no space to install an update. When I tried to show her how to delete the videos, she panicked and took the phone back. It’s not a camcorder, and you don’t need twenty minutes’ footage of the grand kids at Chuck E’ Cheese!

Got apps on my phone, but I tend to just have it for calls as well.

And this strip highlights what wrong with society today, especially amongst the younger folks

When i on my cell phone my family members get mad at me because i’m to busy to talk while i’m on the cell that’s the bad thing about a cell phone.

I’m older than Frank. By a decade at least, and I know how to upgrade everything in our house. Three computers, three tablets, two iPhones. I can diagnose and usually fix most software and hardware problems. Cut the “old” folks some slack, a lot of us have been playing with digital equipment since Apple was in a garage.

I’m with Frank, I have a $9 flip phone for calls and text instead of a $700 iPhone which can do things I don’t need. Plus I don’t have to pay a hundred $ a month for the privilege.

Then again “land lines” never get “attacked” by anybody, never rack up “data” charges and don’t bother you every five minutes with “text.”

Thats me without the daughter part. Most of the apps on my phone that were “standard equipment” have been either deleted or turned off.

At least he’s not asking, “Where’s the rotary dial?”

I recently bought a new car and found out AFTER I bought it that they no longer install a CD player in 2018 forward, nor is it an option. So I now have a collection of my favorite artist and such that I can’t listen to. I do not have music on my phone and other than the radio the phone is the only choice. NOT A FAN>

I fear I am old enough to be Frank’s dad, but I use my phone for what it is – a sophisticated computer.

40 Years from now, Luann’s kids will be doing the same thing with her, as she’s now doing with Frank. “Helping” Lu with a piece of as yet un-invented technology that she’ll not be all that “comfortable” with…..,

It’s not about understanding the technology. it’s about not needing it. I like the text feature; however, I just don’t need or want games and FB and restaurant guides and e bay and instagram on my phone. Those types of thing just don’t thrill me. I like traveling and hiking and and driving fast cars and working out. I can do all those without a phone strapped to me.

I’ve been thinking about going back to a flip phone for years and getting an iPad mini (or iPod Touch) for running apps. And several years ago, I would’ve saved quite a bit. But with today’s contracts, the phone company would only save me $10/mo (since I’ll still need the data plan for my other two family members). The cost of the phone itself is of less importance than the monthly cost of the service.

To the curb, old man! Phone calls. How quaint!

Frank is about 50. He didn’t build a crystal radio as a kid, nor did he have a Victrola. His grandfather probably, but not Frank. He had a cool stereo and a Trash-80.

View from the middle of the theater: Intermission, curtain goes down and dozens phone lights go on in front of you. Like oxygen to deep sea divers.

Alexander Graham Bell would be miffed to see what became of his invention.

I’m using a smartphone to write this comment. I’m 60.

I have a smartphone. Hate the d@^^ thing! When its warranty is up I’m going back to a flip. All it does is tell me apps have updates.

Frank: “You use your phone to store pictures?”

Luann: “Yep. Let me show you the ones I took of Jack this week!”

“Does not compute.”

Agree 100% with him. When I got my first smartphone a few months back, I started to download a few apps but decided all I want to do was make calls when necessary. My personal business will remain just that (my personal business). Google maps is about the only important thing a smartphone is good for. Takes me where I want to go.

I don’t even have one of those…I am not old fashioned….I am merely arrogant, concieted, and choose not to be bothered by the likes of you !

This may be the first time Luann (!) has been cast as “the tech-savvy child" who rescues the “hopelessly clueless old fuddy-duddy parent” from his ignorance.

But Frank has the real point. Unless you actually want to be a Smartphone Zombie, you don’t need a load of stuff on your portable communicator that you don’t or shouldn’t do while on the run….

I get more calls than I make. I do take text, but it is beastly hard to text back. No movies, no apps, I do have a flip phone which is all I really need.

I HAD to get a smartphone for one simple reason: I needed the large screen size to be able, at my age and bad eyesight, to read my wife’s texts.

That was the point of having a phone in his day.

Oh how I can relate to this strip! I have a love/hate relationship with my cell phone. All I want it to do is be a phone!

I hate making phone calls. I’m so glad my phone is good for other things.

As soon as he’s got a grandkid he’ll use that camera function nonstop.

Remember back when Luann would spend all her time talking on the phone?