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.
Either that or she works for Nintendo.
You whippersnappers may not know this, but it's not just the old folks that are clueless about technology. My dad and I appraise real estate, and during our inspections, he jots things down with a pen while I fill out the report on a PDA. One day we were inspecting a large house in a very rich neighborhood. As the owner's wife (the youngest person in this story, keep in mind) let us in, she asked me if my PDA was a "Nintendo game". I was too embarrassed to answer such a stupid question seriously, so I resorted to gentle sarcasm. She seemed to get it, and we got straight to work. My dad and I would even discuss what to put in the report. As we were finishing the inspection, the wife asked me what Nintendo game I was playing (Why was she so brand-specific?). To my horror, I realized she didn't know she had TWO appraisers over, but instead thought ONE appraiser brought his retarded adult son along to wander around her home, poking his nose into their private rooms while playing a videogame. I felt like Rain Man.
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 »
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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.
#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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