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.
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My parents had been badgering me about what I wanted for Xmas for a while. Since there were just a couple of books and CDs I've been after, I thought it would be a good idea to make an Amazon wishlist and email it to my dad - it'd be easier than trying to tell him the titles over the phone, and he tends to order from Amazon anyway. But then I came home the other week and found that yep, my dad had got the link to the wishlist fine - in fact, he'd printed it off. Then logged back onto Amazon to search for the things and order them. And, in one case, ordered the complete wrong book because he read the printed-out wishlist wrong. Love you, Dad.
My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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.
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 »
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.
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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