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.
How did she get hired as tech support?
My mother works for a company as tech support. One of their company products is a networking mechanism that can link up with all different kinds of things in the house (ceiling fans, blinds, lights, a/c, etc). On top of that, the company also produces an iphone/ipod app to use with this item. So one day, my mom's boss tells her that they have an extra control that she can have to play around with at home for extra practice. She's all too excited about it that she tells the family she wants to buy an iphone 3GS (back when they were new). My dad says no since it costs more than she would get out of a phone. Being the kind person that I am, when I upgraded my phone to an iphone, I gave her my old 1st generation ipod to mess around with. When I went home for thanksgiving, I found that she burned out 2 light switches, and our ceiling fan, and our hallway light only works from one out of its 3 switches. Best part is, she says that the ipod doesn't work and wants an iphone 4 for christmas. Oh, might I add, she always chews me out for not picking up my phone, leaving me voicemails that simply say "you missed my call, call me back". And when I call her back, her phone goes straight to voicemail because she doesn't want to waste batteries by keeping her phone on all the time.
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.
#1
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.
#2
"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 »
#3
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.
#4
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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