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 Parents Save Energy
My parents just got a new programmable thermostat for their central air. It has all the basic energy saving features. You can set a temperature, have it vary based on time of day, all that good stuff. I installed it and programmed it for them so that the ac wouldn't run while they were at work. One day my mom was home from work during the day, in the summer, and therefore the house was hot. I then received a distressed phone call from my mother. She said she was wrapped in a blanket and freezing because I had set up her thermostat all wrong. She turned the temperature down to 72 degrees (it had been set at 80 during work hours), but then also turned the cool air to ON. She said I must have messed up the thermostat because the AC was blowing much colder than the 72 degrees she set it at. I tried to explain that when the cold air is on it only produces one temperature, cold. She rebuked me saying that she set it to 72 so the ac unit should only blow 72 degree air. She ended up turning the ac off after a few hours of constant running dropping the temperature in the house to the mid 60s in the middle of summer. So much for being green.
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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