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.
Use the Remote
My parents are two of the most loving people I know, and I love them to death because of how much they care about me, but sometimes I wish I didn't have to teach them how to work our HDTV so frequently. You know how televisions have separate channels for different things you want to watch? (i.e. Channel for dvd's, video games, etc) Every time one of my parents presses the wrong button (After I continually tell them that they're SUPPOSE to use the remote to change the goddamn channel) the TV screen changes to one of the blue colored extra channels. Then what my folks do is either wake me up at outrageous hours of the night, interrupt me when I'm the middle of studying for a huge test, or call me when I'm out doing something, just so I can turn the TV back to normal. I don't get why they they still need me to do this especially since I wrote them a guide on how to do it, and sometimes it frustrates me to no end when I have to keep teaching them how to fix it every time they make this mistake. But I can't stay mad at them, they're my parents, the least I can do is help them when they really need it.
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.
#1
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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