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.
Internet Access
I work in a Doctor's office at the front desk. I was surfing the internet when one of the nurses walked by and said, "I wish I could do that." I was pretty sure all of the computers had internet access, but didn't say anything. Normally, no one is allowed in the nurse's station, but for a period of time, I was given access after hours to move things out because all of the tile floors were getting waxed. I decided to check out the computer in their station, and sure enough, it had internet explorer and worked fine. Days later, I casually brought up to the nurse from earlier that I heard everyone had the same computer options, but she still refused to have it, saying she asked about it once and was told it wasn't possible to get on the internet. I figured i'd just drop it, but decided to say something like, "Are you sure there isn't an internet explorer icon?" to which she responded, "No, I'm not looking for internet explorer, I want to get on the internet!" in a frustrated tone. I ended up telling one of the other nurses, who thought it was just as funny as I did. She showed the first nurse, who has avoided me ever since for some reason.
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.
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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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