Over an old phone line

"Ten years ago, my uncle didn't want to have an internet connection installed because - as he put it back then - it's not worth it for the time he has left. Ten years ago! My cousin got him a subscription now. Can you imagine?"

"You won't tell him this, will you?.."

"Sure I will! He knows I have a big mouth, but he also has an excellent sense of humour and he'll doubtless get my point. So much time wasted. And now he's complaining that it is difficult to understand... but at least he's finally trying."

My uncle, yesterday:

"Look at how ridiculous this is: first they turned the analogue TV signal to digital. All old devices were suddenly obsolete. Then gradually radio frequencies fell off and now.."

"Now you can't listen to your classical music station on the air and because they stream.."

"- yes, it's streaming now!"

"..and this is why you got an internet connection. Nothing could make you have one, but this - this - was the tipping point?"

"And now I have a problem because I need to have it playing on my good old loudspeakers so as to be able to hear it properly, and I'm searching for WIFI tuners on Amazon (Here I'm thinking, he knows Amazon?) and this.. what was this.. eeeemag."

So much wasted time.