Parents Just Don't Understand

11/4

by Susanna Wolff November 04, 2009

Do your parents not understand technology? Do they ask you stupid questions? Do they send you absurd text messages? Do they use words like "MyFace,""SpaceBook,"or "The World Wide Web?"

If you've got an example of your Parents Just Don't Understanding, submit it here!
And thank God we'll never be as dumb as they are!

Your parents' Windows 7.

My mom just came home from Walmart with a 5-pack of blank cassettes.
Tino S.

My mom called me to tell me she liked my Facebook status.
Colleen McAuliffe, Georgia Southern University

Today my I was watching the Vikings/Packers game when that NFL robot graphic came up on the screen and my mom asked, "How much do you think that guy gets paid to sit inside that robo-suit?"
tyler storrs

My dad thinks Google Earth is in real time.
Kaleigh F. O

My mom just asked me if her phone has a separate "text number" and if she wanted to send me a text message, what number to send it to.
Nico Perez

My aunt facebook friended me just so she could have more neighbors in Farmville.
Phyl D.

My grandpa refuses to accept the fact that the clock on my iPhone is more accurate than his manually set wristwatch.
Connor Kogler

I tried to explain LOLcats to my mom one day. A week later I got a card in the mail with a return address from my cat. The card read - verbatim - "Meow! Me mises u sew much wen u r at colidg. Kant wate fur u to com home:, Momi byd me sum Kat treets they r gud! I luv u and msiss u veri muhch." Good one, Mom.
Aly P, UIowa

My grandpa spent an hour on Google Earth looking at the ocean because "he got lost."
Mister Hippo

This week we have a very special I Don't Know Whether or Not Your Dad Understands Technology, But I Think He Might Be a Never Nude:

My dad wears briefs under his boxers.
Jay W., Minnesota

Submit yours here!

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