Boys and Gadgets - The Unknown Connection

Have always wondered "what is the link between guys and gadgets”. Whenever we get an electronic gadget at home, my brother gets attracted to it like a "bee to honey". Till he explores the complete functions, the ins and outs, he does not rest in peace. I used to think it was his grown up grey cells working overtime, and that's the reason for his fascination with electronics.

Then came into our lives my little cousin, my uncle's sun oops son. By the time he was three, he could identify the different brands of mobile available in our house. As he grew up, he fiddled with our cells and other electronic toys. Soon he started accessing music and games in the cell phone. Any electronics toys given to him in the morning would be fit for scrap by the evening. Anyway that's kids.

Recently I purchased a new cell phone. As usual it was my brother who handled it first, exploring the functions and stuff. In the evening, my 6 year old cousin came in with his parents. I was trying to figure how the camera worked. He took the phone from my hand and the first question "What games do u have". When I said "I don't know", he gave me a "what-an-idiot-look". Then he took the handset and started fiddling with it and after some time I saw a flash. He had operated the camera. Thinking it’s a fluke, I asked him to click another one and he did it. And I had not even figured how the thing worked. I felt he was out to prove my technological ignorance to my tech savvy khandaan.

Anyways, the next day I took the cell phone to my office. My friends' particularly the guys questioned me about the different functions. By this time I had gone through the manual, so I could save myself from embarrassment by answering quite a few of their questions. When their grilling refused to subside, I said to my friend, "why don't u take it to your cabin and fiddle with it, and also let me know what are the new functions." During the day someone or the other (males again) kept on popping at my workstation, just to explore the functions. I was fed up and hoped the novelty would wear off after the first day.

The second day I went to my office and had just settled down in my chair. My friend comes to me and his question "So howz the phone. Have you kept it safe? " No hi, no how are you. “You don’t ask me, how am I” I complained. He just grinned and went away, and I was left staring at the phone and shaking my head.

C’mon guys, its just a gadget…