I want to share an interesting story that happened to me recently. One of the biggest television events that happens every year in the U.S. is called the Super Bowl. I don’t watch a lot of sports, but I try to watch the Super Bowl every year.

Well, I have a relative in her 80s who lives in Arizona and doesn’t go out much. I asked her to come and spend some time with me. She also has a relative, also in her 80s, who lives about 2 hours from me. I took her there to visit. Thankfully, both wanted to watch the Super Bowl with me.

We discovered that she had a television and she had cable, but she had never used either. I had to figure out how to make that television work so we could watch the Super Bowl.

Well, we arrived well before the Super Bowl started, so I had ample time to figure out how to make the television work. I worked on it for quite a while but couldn’t get it to work. She lives in a retirement community with free cable, but she doesn’t have a cable box.

Thankfully, she had an app called Paramount. I have a membership to Paramount, so I decided to use my account. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my password. I went through repeated attempts to retrieve my password and ran into many other complications.

After a long series of trial and error, I got it working, but it was already within the second quarter of the game. I thought I would figure it out sooner or later, but what was interesting was the comments of these two ladies in their 80s. They........

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