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.
Hardcore, bro
My mom is somewhat computer illiterate, but she likes to brag to everyone about how much of a gamer she is just because she spends all of her time on Farmville. So when I told her that I planned to get Skyrim, she looked it up and decided that since the graphics were pretty, she wanted the game for herself. I told her to try another RPG game first instead of just buying Skyrim (she had never played a RPG in her life), and so I installed Oblivion onto her desktop and convinced her to play it. The next day, I asked her what she thought and she told me that the game was far too hard for her. I asked her what was hard about it and eventually she told me that it was impossible to use a mouse and keyboard at the same time so she had just given up. She went on further to explain that normal people don't use the mouse and keyboard at the same time and that is why "Gamers can't ride Segways". I still don't know where the Segway reference came from...
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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