My dad, who has a degree in education and works as a career counselor at a local college, will not properly use bold, italics, or underlining when writing email messages. Instead, he INSISTS on CAPITALIZING certain words for EMPHASIS throughout his WHOLE MESSAGE.
Idiotech
Parents, teachers, bosses, and the general old people population are terrible with technology.
A Match Made in Heaven
- Within two minutes of my mother receiving and turning on her new PC, she came to me with a mixed look of desperation and confusion asking what exactly the computer was asking her to do. It was at the User Login Screen for Windows, and she was not sure what to do, as a user name of 'Mum' isn't quite clear enough. - My father, a little more PC friendly than my mother, was using his desktop PC, when all of a sudden his LCD screen went black. Instead of thinking 'the Screens Power LED is off, maybe I should check the power', he proceeded to reach back behind the monitor, find the VGA-signal cable which he then decided to just 'tug' at. The 'tugging' was not quite enough to get him back to watching youtube, so he decided to pull harder. Pulling the VGA Cable, screwed into the back of the PC, was enough to pull the attached computer part OUT of the back of the PC, thus smashing and destroying what was still a perfectly working PC. Finding just a Video Card on the other end of the cable, he decided that his computer was falling apart, and within minutes the PC was learning to swim in our backyard pool - no joke.
Cell phone battery vs power grid
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My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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Well that's one way to do it...
My girlfriend was creating a report and created a different word document for each section. When she realized that she needed to include page numbers, instead of combining them into one document she proceeded to print out 96 pages with only the page numbers on them. Then, insert the pages back into the printer and print each document on top of them.
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"Did you call me?"
I work at a furniture store, and sometimes I'm asked to ride shotgun on one of the delivery trucks. The driver is in his 50's and a bit eccentric. Each truck has a flip-open cell phone to communicate with the store, and this driver is often worried he's missed a call. But instead of looking for the little envelope icon to indicate a missed message, he insists on opening the... Read More »
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Hot Spot
My dad has had an iPhone for quite some time now. No matter how many times that I tell him otherwise, he thinks he can only use safari on it if he turns his personal hotspot on. He also thinks that turning it on will somehow boost his signal. He even has my stepmom log into his hotspot to use the Internet even though she too has an iPhone and hey have a shared data plan.
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Write it down.
So I'm teaching my mom how to use email on her computer. So she's sitting in the desk chair and I'm standing over her shoulder. I say, "Ok, so turn on the computer". She goes, "Hold on." She then stands up, goes to get pencil and paper and proceeds to write down "Turn computer on". I say, "You did not just write that, did you?"
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