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It's Like They're Trying To Be Dumb

by Susanna Wolff on

Do your parents not understand technology? Do they ask you stupid questions? Do they send you absurd text messages? Do they even know what a text message is?

If you’ve got an example of your Parents Just Don’t Understanding, send it to parentsjustdontunderstand (at) gmail.com. And, hey, if we publish it, send your parents a link. They probably won’t understand what it is.

  • My dad bought himself an iPod to take on vacation and asked me to put songs on it. I gave it back to him full of music. He then picked it up and held it to his ear like a cell phone.
    - Steve from Port Elgin


  • My mom was looking on the computer, and saw a smiley face like this: =D
    She then asked what “equal D” meant. Then she assumed that D stood for drugs.
    -Zach
  • When my mom wants to send me a website or article, she prints out the page, scans it, and then emails it as an attachment.
    -Matt from Pasadena
  • I had to take a mandatory Library Tutorial in which a 70 year-old lady tried to explain how search engines worked. Her main issue was that she didn’t know anyone that worked at Google, so she didn’t know how anyone there, “In the Google office building,” knew she worked at the college.
    -Trevor from Cape Cod Community College
  • My friend just got a text message from her mom that said: “What day do you come home question mark”
    -Jennifer

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I wish ya'll would stop being so vindictive...

So my freshman roommate (like 6 years ago) was awesome, and we were totally suited to live together. Neither one of us was bothered by the other's poor habits or vices. We kinda hung with different crowds though, and I would often stay with friends for days on end and come back to our room at random times with no notice. No worries but 90% of the time he'd be whackin it... Read More » when I came in the room. He'd never fail to do the "hunch over the laptop and look really intently at the blank desktop screen like he was looking for something" pose when I suprised him. This happened literally about 15 times over the year. I would usually be sober, but I pretended to be so drunk every time and fake stumble to the bathroom like I didn't notice, giving him time to adjust himself and save him the embarassment. Your welcome buddy, happy masturbating!