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.
Work, damn thing, work!
Once, in the seventh grade, a computer broke down on my school. Luckily, we had a pretty good computer manager, who usually did the work nicely. Though, if things didn't work as he wanted it to right away, he usually asked some students for help, since many was as good as him in many subjects. Well, needless to say, this computer did not work, and he came to my classroom and asked for help. A boy volunteered, claiming he could fix it in a heartbeat. Though the computer manager could not tell much about how it broke down, just that a student had been using it, and suddenly, the screen went black. It wouldn't turn on at all. They were gone for over an hour, and when they came back, I asked if they had fixed it, and he nodded, without adding some kind of 'what did I say'-comment, as he usually did, since he was always extremely full of himself. A few others went in on this, asking what was wrong and how they fixed it. Finally he told us the story, which unfortunately is true: "We tried to reset it, turning it on, checked the screen if that was related to the problem, but we found nothing, until the computer manager suggested to check inside the computer. We agreed that would be a good idea, and we went behind the disk to turn the computer around, and that was when we discovered the problem: the powercord had been pulled out..."
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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