i walked into the den the other day to see my father rubbing the mouse on his head i asked him what he was doing and he said "trying to get better reception for the internet"
Computer Teacher
My mom works as a computer teacher at the local college. Yet for some reason she couldn't figure out how to turn her own laptop on, & spent a good 20 minutes freaking out. She kept pushing a button with a P on it.. The power button is near the screen, and obvious. She still won't let me touch it because she's convinced that I'm going to break it. When she was still taking classes for her masters in business, she asked me to use a chat room. I had to sit there for the first few minutes to make sure she didn't somehow log out of it. There are still points in time that she'll send me over to one of her student's to help them because she's 'too busy', in reality she just doesn't know what they're talking about & figures that I'll know.
Today my mom called sounding very excited. When I asked her what had happened, she replied "I know what I'm getting your brother for christmas. The computer just told me that I won a Wii!"
I was bringing my boyfriend home for the first time to introduce him to my parents. We were talking and he said to me, "Oh wait, did you see my picture on FaceBook?" And I was about to reply when my mother jumped in and said, "Facebook? We have a Facebook! One second hold on!" She ran upstairs, leaving all of us in confusion (everyone knows my mother is horrible at... Read More »
I went to my parents house for a visit to find that my dad had put an aluminum pie plate over the wireless router "to stop the neighbours from stealing the internet"
I convinced my mom that the lighter app on the iPhone actually heated up the phone. She was skeptical at first, but after 10 seconds of the top of my phone on a light bulb when she wasn't looking, thoroughly convinced her the iPhone can do anything.


