Touchscreen-- A complex baby !!

I sit in the passenger seat of the car with plans to explore a new restaurant downtown. Lost the way,the touchscreen owner hands over his "sophisticated kid" immediately, to check the so-called 'google-maps' while he is driving.... Oops,that's a tough task !!!.... Silently, I take the iphone, unlocking took 5 minutes - courtesy touchscreen. Now, selecting google maps from the menu, spread over 3 pages, is a tough task....Thinking, why the hell  Steve Jobs couldn't keep this icon on the first page, I silently try out......grrrrrr :-/

Owner ,by this time , is a little pissed off,thinking, what a dunderhead he is carrying along.... ;) I still continue to try.. slightly brushing my finger against the screen to reach to the page 3 which has google maps icon...  I struggle with the phone, trying 3 of my fingers in turns, to reach the 3rd page and  thinking why the hell people buy such iPhones! This takes a minute or so......  And here I am on the 3rd page trying to open the google maps by slightly touching the icon... The slight touch doesn't hit the right icon in the first try, opening some other application everytime.... 2-3 tries and I am able to get the right click,sorry sorry 'touch', on the maps icon.... Finally going through a maze of 'touches' I am on the google maps page and here I need to type in source and the destination....  keying in the characters again takes some time but I promise, I am trying my best :(  By this time, the owner is totally pissed off, because he has already undergone a devious route in the Bangalore's one-ways and pathetic traffic.Thus, he stops the car, stonkered and chafed with the clumsy co-traveller. He takes his iPhone and khat-khat, within seconds with a few touches and blabbering some "left right lefts", he takes off again....

I sheepishly sit back, thinking about my inability to use iPhone.But this lasts only for a minute or two because I have full confidence in my iPhone owner's cognitive skills.So, I start thinking about the cuisines that the new place has to offer and silently enjoy the drive...... We reach this restaurant in another 5 minutes.... The iPhone owner tries to make me little comfortable thinking that I would be feeling bad at my inability to use iPhone [ ;) ] ,and that's what I was waiting for... :) We happily go, have food and enjoy the drive back home !


Unable to operate the iPhone doesn't make me sad.However, the capability of people to use it promptly is what bothers me.... What does this complex baby demands--- the patience, the intelligence, the concentration or just the perfect touches.... that's little difficult for me to figure out...

What I know is, I am happy with my samsung s3500,which this co-traveler made me buy :)  And whenever I am given to operate his iPhone to search something in the google maps, I always feel that we have so many autowalas,cars and bikes on every signal getting bored waiting for the signal to turn green, then why not give them a chance to help......Open the window shades,peep out of the car and ask for the way.... A little thanks and a smile in turn is much better than struggling with the iPhone google maps...

I relive all my "touchscreen traumas" whenever I see a touchscreen/iPhone and my co-traveller's unending patience to bear with me in the hope that some day I would learn to use iPhone and specially google maps. :)

P.S. Treat Mr. iPhone with  more care than you treat your wife, because if he gets angry you got to pay a big big price.....With pockets getting picky,sunshine unfriendly,extra cost of a screen protector,no one-hand sms texting, trauma for people with stubby fingers- its a complex baby, indeed !!!