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Parents Just Don't Understand

Parents Just Don't Understand: 9/3

by Susanna Wolff on September 2, 2008

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!

I was watching “Jurassic Park” with my grandmother a few months ago. During one particularly scary moment she leans over to me and, with a very worried tone in her voice, asks, “The Dinosaurs…they’re only for the movie, right, they didn’t breed any extras?”

Logan Stagnitto, Vassar College

My dad needed directions to the place I work, so to make it easy for him I linked the Google maps directions I looked up and pasted it into an email. He responded a few hours later that the link was too long to type into the address box.
Mallie T, UVA

My mom’s friend calls it a cell-o-phone.
Brian Lowe

For a year my mom has been carrying around her powered off cell phone so she can turn it on when she gets home and check her voicemail.
Kevin Tewell

My mom bought solar powered lanterns because they are “better for the environment”. Solar. Powered. Lanterns.
Brandon Ewald, Augsburg

The day after moving onto campus I get a call from my mom. She is having trouble getting on the internet. Her first question to me was “Did you take the internet with you to college?”.
Warren Moseley, Clemson University