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"
Input Issues
My parents are fairly tech-savy with gadgets they are familiar with, but they have been unable to watch DVDs on their newer TV for years. For some reason, despite multiple tutorials, they never got the hang of using the TV remote to change the input instead of the cable remote. Because they got rid of their old TV, they couldn't watch any movies, so when I agreed to take a look the next time I went home. I demonstrated the steps need to change from cable to the DVD player to my mother, but the input just wouldn't work. The TV was on and the DVD player was on, I just couldn't figure out what was wrong. The problem? The input cables were unplugged. They hadn't been able to watch a DVD on that TV for at least 4 years.
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.


