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Parents Just Don't Understand

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Do your parents not understand technology? None of them do, they’re all morons! People that dumb shouldn’t be allowed to breed. It’s tragic, really.

If you’ve got an example of your Parents Just Don’t Understanding, embarrass them and send it to parentsjustdontunderstand (at) gmail.com.

  • While my mother was looking over my shoulder an an AIM conversation:
    Mom: “What does LMAO mean?”
    Me: “It’s an abbreviation”
    Mom: “Let’s Make An Omelette?”
    -Chris F.

  • When Gwen Stefani’s song “Hollaback Girl” came on, my dad sang what he thought were the words while tapping his fingers and bobbing his head to the beat – “I ain’t no Harlem black girl.”
    -Christine R.

  • My mom bought a Nintendo DS to play Brain Age. After it sat on her desk for about a month, I asked her why she hadn’t opened it yet. She said she didn’t have the time to install the software.
    - Jon from Toronto
  • My oldest brother is in the military and was just on deployment in Iraq for about a year. Using a phone at his base in Baghdad, routered through who knows what monitoring agencies, he would call home every month or so. My mother, being worried and feeling lonely that he had not called in a while, decided to hit ‘call back’ on the number stored on our caller ID. After some confusion on the other end of how an incoming call came in, my mom said she was trying to reach her son stationed in Iraq. The person responded, “Ma’am, you’ve reached the Pentagon.” A day or so later my brother was scolded by his commanding officer for not keeping in better touch with his mom. Poor kid, fighting for his nation and his mother is still embarrassing him.
    - Devin from Villanova

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I work in IT for a fairly well known company, but I work for one of the smaller branches. It's just me and one other person and let me just say, he isn't the brightest bulb. We are suppose to change the passwords to the computers every three months, and I was going to be gone on the day that we were suppose to do it. I wrote down the list of passwords that he needed to... Read More » change it to in an Excel doc and told him that he needed change them before he left on Friday, but after everyone is gone for the weekend. Monday I get back and everyone is asking me why they cannot get onto their computer. It turns out the guy didn't like the passwords I had created and made up his own, and then forgot what they were.