‘Revenge Of The Elders’

I received orders from my father-in-law yesterday: I should be on stand-by at my desk. He was learning how to use a cell-phone -- for now, to punch in sequences of digits and press Send. This morning, to our great surprise, he called wife E. OBSERVATION: Perhaps it is the "revenge of the elders". When they first erected a cell-phone mast on the plateau a few years ago, he complained bitterly that the elders were now "out of it". Everybody talked to everybody now, he said, whereas previously the elders had been at the centre of attention.