Parents Just Don't Understand: 9/23

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!

My 7th grade math teacher would always make the word problems about super heroes, but she was very concerned about copyright infringement. Unfortunately for her, she couldn’t type the symbol ©. It was funny reading a math question about “Superman@.”
Dan P

My dad and I were in the car on a long drive. I showed him my new GPS and pointed out that it calculated how long it would take to arrive. He turns to me and asks, “Does it take into account stopping for lunch?”
Jeff Poley, NC State

Whenever my Dad wants to turn my computer off he comes over and turns the bass on my speakers to zero, and turns off the monitor.
Johnny Osborne

My mother claimed she could not read my latest email because her printer was broken.
Jen Mach

My mom once called me into to the study claiming she couldn’t understand why the computer wasn’t reading a CD she put in. When I bent down to eject the CD I saw that she’d simply wedged it through brute force into a crack on the tower. It was only about a third of the way in.
George W

I was watching “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” with my mom and the $25 K question comes along asking “Who are the twitter guys?” After seeing the choices, my mom immediately yells out the correct answer, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, despite never having used twitter and probably never having heard of it. When I asked her how she possibly could have known this, she replied, “It’s got to be Biz Stone because you see all those websites with .biz at the end.”
Jon S, UF

Today, my mom asked me to help her with some problems on her computer. Amongst them, “screen jumping,” “screenshotting,” and “fixing the soundbox.” After I finished laughing at her, she said, “Wait, I left my antivirus open – does that mean a hacker could disable it?”
Vinnie Pai, Columbia

My dad has two cell phones that he carries at all times. One is part of a family plan so he can talk to us. The other is so he can talk to “everyone else.” He recently asked me if I wanted another cell phone so I could talk to my friends.
Tom Mahoney, Northern Michigan

Today my 84 year-old professor said this in class, “..and the young man told me that I could learn everything about the 600 filipino islands on the computer. I guess the computer is big enough to hold them all.”
Stephanie , Ohlone College

In my teacher’s syllabus, he listed as a rule “No pagers.”
Samantha Heath, Fullerton College

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