Does anyone else have an inexplicably fraught relationship with technology?

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I am looking for stories here, please.
I was brought up in a poor, and therefore low-tech, household. No car, no telephone, no fridge. Basic TV and radio, second-hand radio/cassette player when I got older.
After leaving home, I came to hate any new technology. My experience was, I’d try to use it, it wouldn’t work and I’d get embarrassed because it made me look like a country bumpkin or a silly girl. So I've become a “late adopter” of new technologies, always relying on family to show me exactly how to use new stuff and to hand-hold while I get used to it. Regularly, these technologies will stop working for me, while behaving as expected for everyone else. (DH and I coined the term “testosterone finger” to describe the phenomenon.)
Just recently, I was chatting to a mate-of-a-mate workman, who described to me how he’s had problems with technology all his life – how electrical technologies in particular misbehave in his presence, computers reliably freeze, any but the most basic mobile phone lets him down…. It sounded reassuringly familiar. (As we were leaving to go home we walked to our vehicles together. And the door handle of my car broke as I pulled it open.)
So now I am wondering whether this is a Thing, that some people do have a personal force field that causes bicycle chains to shuck off, smart phone screens to lose their swipeability, TV remotes to refuse to respond.

No woo.

Lots of electrical equipment is faulty and/or poor quality. You distrust it so will notice it when things don’t work well, or at all.

My mum used to stop watches. She worked in a riding school and would look after the riders' watches while they rode by putting them on. They stopped so many times she stopped doing it. Street lights and house lights apparently went off when she was around.
She never really had technology, I was brought up mostly without even electricity, but when we did have it it was never reliable. I gave her a tablet when they were travelling abroad but that broke. Her phones (basic ones, not smart phones) would have weird glitches but work fine when someone else tried. Anything more than a radio and she couldn't handle it.
She and my stepdad lived on a narrow boat until she died (quite young, 56) with no electricity and no technology other than radio and a mobile that she rarely used. She was happy with that.

@RagzReturnsRebooted

My mum used to stop watches. She worked in a riding school and would look after the riders' watches while they rode by putting them on. They stopped so many times she stopped doing it. Street lights and house lights apparently went off when she was around. She never really had technology, I was brought up mostly without even electricity, but when we did have it it was never reliable. I gave her a tablet when they were travelling abroad but that broke. Her phones (basic ones, not smart phones) would have weird glitches but work fine when someone else tried. Anything more than a radio and she couldn't handle it. She and my stepdad lived on a narrow boat until she died (quite young, 56) with no electricity and no technology other than radio and a mobile that she rarely used. She was happy with that.

Thanks for sharing that, Ragz.

This has reminded me that my first-and-only Kindle stopped working almost immediately. I'd remembered the three smart phones in a row that were unusable, but had forgotten the Kindle.