My Grandma was born in 1902 when Oklahoma was still Indian Territory. As she got older we had many disagreements over modern technology.
Considering she traveled in a wagon for many years and saw personally the development of cars and airplanes from scratch I could understand how huge leaps in technology made her edgy.
She learned to trust her children and grandchildren who built her a house complete with indoor plumbing (we literally had to use the can until the mid-eighties) and plug ins in every room. That didn't stop here from questioning how often turning things on and off was good for an appliance or how much water plumbing uses up. She really appreciated what we did and the care with which we did it, but after all she had seen come and go and the effects of earlier unsafe products she probably still worried about a lot of things that didn't need to be worried about.
It may be rough on the nerves but it is a good thing to take care of people in spite of theirselves, especially the elderly who can probably remember the first time they saw an electric light.
