Parents Just Don't Understand: 11/11

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?”

My parents recently went to Europe for a retirement vacation. They came back so surprised to tell me that Europe had internet. I asked why they thought that it wouldn’t and they replied, “Because its called AMERICA Online.”
steven davis, U of South Carolina

My mom is convinced that every time her cell phone battery meter loses a bar, that she will automatically get poor reception because it cant “pull the beams in as strongly.”
Nick M, MIZZOU

My mom emailed me with the subject line “Please email me back ASAP” to let me know she had learned now to text.
N A

Someone with the wrong number mistakenly called my dad’s cell last week and he called AT&T and yelled at the customer service rep. for giving out his number to people he didn’t know.
Cody T, Oklahoma State

My friend’s father asked to make a phone call while at our house. I handed him the huge cordless house phone and he said, “Oh, your family only uses cell phones now?”
Kate Donovan, Umass

My mom got a Palm Pilot when we upgraded cell phones. She calls it her “Palmberry.”
grant gates, Texas Tech

My Dad won’t turn his cell phone on when he’s traveling in a vehicle because he thinks he’s going to get “roaming charges.” He makes the signal for “quotations” with his fingers when he says it too.
Ryan Binghampton

My grandpa had a habit of losing his cordless home phone so, to solve his problem, he found a piece of yarn and tied one end around the phone and the other one around the receiver. He’s still really excited about this “invention.”
brandon doll, Ohio

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