The Sage was peering hard at her mobile screen. The Brat walked in and asked what was puzzling her. The Sage replied that she was trying to use the Cleartrip App. So this is the conversation that followed.
The Brat: See you use Android, so go to Play Store and download the app you wish to use. I use iPhone so I have a different destination.
The Sage: So what do you think? I am some ancient fossil? After all for all my extensive travels, I do use the weather app. And I know what the Google Play Store is. I have already downloaded the app.
The Brat: Heaven forbid, you actually manage to download the app on your own without howling for help? It must be one easy app to install!
The Sage: Young one, it will help to leave your sarcasm …
The Brat: (Mutters under his breath) It will help whom? (Says loudly) Anyway if by some miracle even you managed to download the app what are you frowning about?
The Sage: I can’t login using Facebook.
The Brat: Why if you can download the app, you can surely login using FB, come on it is easier than that.
The Sage: There was no problem in pressing the button that said login using Facebook. But it then tells me “can’t access your email using Facebook.”
The Brat: You must have set your email on FB as private …
The Sage: I set everything on Facebook that I can, as private. Only my travel related updates are public!
The Brat: So go ahead and create an account instead.
The Sage: OK let us do it together.
Silence reigns in the room for two minutes while the Sage concentrates on the smartphone screen.
The Sage: Wait why do I even need to create an account when I can use it anyway. See I can book flights, check out weekend destinations, book even trains and buses without an account.
The Brat: Excellent, but don’t come back to me later saying you need the account to access some feature.
The Sage: Youngsters these days! Wait let me make that account, actually it is easy. All it needs is my email, phone number, name and then me setting a password.
The Brat: Technology is always easy, it is you who imagine it to be complicated. Congratulations now you can access your trips from anywhere.
The Sage: Thank you so much for your help and sarcasm, I am now ready to plan my next trip using just my mobile.
The Brat: Good luck and I am off! Please call their customer support if you need any help. It is easy using the app.
The last line was said while he was already half out of the door. The Sage was for once oblivious, busy exploring the different features of the new app.
PS. This post is a part of the product reviews program at BlogAdda
PPS. The Brat and the Sage are semi-fictional characters but they bear strong resemblance to my family members!
For a moment I thought it was Chavvi you were referring to as the brat!!! technology baffles me too!
Chaitali Chhavi is Brat 4 at the end of the queue. Before her is my 10 year old niece, and at the top of the queue are my two nephews also known as Brat 1 and Brat 2. Both of them are capable of this conversation! 😀
So the Sage gains wisdom of using the Cleartrip App from the tech savvy Brat. 🙂
I hope they don’t read this soon 😀
Cool… and a new era begins on the Travel Tales From India….
That is what happens when you have time Prasad 😀
So the Sage gains knowledge of using the Cleartrip App from the tech savvy Brat. but now a days it is really easy to use app or game . it is more easier for the children as they first see its animation on youtube and then proceed . my children (6yrs and 4 yrs ) use this type to learn mobile game .
Yogi, kids are surely much more tech savvy than me, seems to be the universal story!
I’m always amused by your accounts of conversations with Brat. I undergo many of these myself. How’s the app?
Kalpanaa they are really brats! 😀 And we have four of them! The App is good. Easy to use.
Very interesting and amusing style to review, Mridula. That’s what quitting job does to you, unleash the creativity within 😀
I entirely agree Roohi 😀
I agree, Technology is easy to use…the only flip side is it gets outdated just as quickly!
Very interesting style of reviewing the app. 🙂
Mridula Now you have a lot of time in your had looks like from this post. Btw who is brat and sage ? I thought it was Chhavi till I got confused with “he” .. Also isnt this paid review by Blogadda ? How come you didnt mention 🙂 as you always do! Maybe you missed ! Btw you hardly visit my blogs nowdays.. They all miss you at photokatha 🙂 Come soon didi 🙂
Hi Rutavi, was writing it in a hurry, as I was traveling the same day to Malaysia, and hence missed out on the paid part. Will visit your blog when I have time.
That’s a fun way to do a post on an app. 🙂
Interesting conversations and a fun way to do an app review …. I have read few posts on Cleartrip but yours is the best 🙂 🙂
http://thetalesofatraveler.com/2015/08/04/le-meridien-piccadilly-london-hotel-review/
Hmm… A story can make any boring thing interesting. Enjoyed the chat between The Sage and Brat. 🙂
Thank you so much Ravish.