'New' machine :-)

My grandfather, a farmer, had lived his whole life at our native village, very rarely venturing out… we tried to talk to him to come down n live with us but he refused to shift to Mumbai …. Luckily his health was alright even at the age of 80… hearing was d only problem…. He used to have 1 day trips to Mumbai but never used to stay beyond that…. Recently my grandmother expired…. So he came down to stay with us for some days…. On one such fine day he expressed his wish to go to one of my aunt who lived nearby…. I drove him to her place which was a highrise apartment…. We stood in front of the lift waiting for it to come down…. I was toggling with my latest cellphone texting someone…. The lift came n we entered it…. I pressed no 9…. My grandfather stood in one corner looking at me n smiling…. I thought maybe he was surprised at what a mobile can do…. I smiled back…. We reached the 9th floor n I reached for the lift door to open it whn my grandfather remarked… “nice machine”… I showed him the cellphone n said “yep.. latest”… he shook his head n said “no no…. I was talking bout this lift… it has certainly made life much easier… just press one button n you can go to any floor easily…..” slowly I realized he must have travelled in a lift for the first time in his life…. Just stood there smiling at him and the ‘machine’ (lift)…. 