Digital Shortcuts Are Great . . . if You Don't Come a Cropper

        "Pay your bills online."  Easier and faster than checks and snail mail.  And then you get emails about it, bills upcoming, bills just paid, and shortcut language accompanies it.

        Verizon says, "Thank you for your auto payment."  Wait!  What?   Did we buy an automobile?  Oh. automatic!  Still,  each new email reminds me we are paying for a car we never bought!

        Then other companys' thank yous, and I'm suddenly seeing the word "autopsy."   What have autopsies got to do with bill payments?  And remember, we're older, don't start talking death with us!

        No the word wasn't autopsy, but "a" between "p" and "y" can look a lot like "s" to older eyes!  The word was "autopay."

        Look out with us over-eighties.  Your shortcut may be our painful detour!