Parents Just Don't Understand: 9/2

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?”

When I was at home visiting my parents, my Grandma called and asked, “What’s your fax number there? No wait! I mean your e-mail address.” I asked if she wanted my e-mail or my Dad’s, and she insisted, “No, the one at the house!”
Jasper Zweibel, Amherst

My mom thought rumble strips in roads were for blind people so that they know when to slow down and stop.
Jaran Hea, Western Illinois Univeristy

I just taught my mom how to highlight text.
Erika , UWO

My grandma’s Internet wasn’t working last week so I went over there totry and fix it. While explaining to her that the firewall was on shesays, “I don’t care, just make sure the internet explorers is working.I love that game.”
mollie -, wmu

My mom invited me to join Facebook.
Shaked

My grandfather thinks that every time he needs to check his email, he has to set up a new account. So he goes to hotmail.com and sets up a whole new account and gets angry when his old username is taken, so he makes up a new one. He enters in all his information and then gets a new account where he then sees he has no new emails and emails everyone else his new email account. My grandfather has over 15 email accounts that I have to go through and delete.
Steph Who, Trent U

My mom recently discovered instant messaging on her Yahoo email account. So she told me she noticed her friend was online and tried to message her but she immediately logged off after she sent it. Five minutes later her friend calls her and asks if that was her that “popped up on her screen.” My mom says, “I don’t know where I popped up.”
Stephanie Russell, Towson U

I work at an orchard with peaches, apples, pears, ect. I was working the register one day and a customer was complaining about rotten peaches, and I had to explain to him that the peaches were at least a month old by now. So he decided to blame the cell phone tower around a mile away for cooking the peaches from the inside out. He made a petition about it.
Joe B., Cincinnati

My dad won’t let my little brother install Tap-Tap on his ipod touch because he says the ipod is only good for so many taps.
Joel Bonanno, LSU

My mother got off the phone with me today because I was distracting her while she was on Facebook…checking if I had updated my page.
Sidney Lynn

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