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.
Steam is out to get us all.
I'm a pretty big gamer. When I came home from school last summer, and Steam had its massive sale, I bought games. A LOT of games. I was careful not to install them all on the same month though, counting the size of every installation so as not to go above our monthly limit and invoke my dad's wrath (he was already mad I was spending so much money on games) Unfortunately, TF2 had just gone free to play, and my brother was thrilled. A week later, we heard our yell at us to come down: we had gone 60 gigs over our limit (which was 60), and my dad was charged a ridiculous amount of money. I turns out, some kink had made my brother have to uninstall and reinstall TF2 SIX TIMES. My dad was furious: "see? why do you waste money on these games?" I told my dad it was free, and he said "free? You call this free? this is how they get you!" I think my dad's under the impression that Steam is part of some sort of grand conspiracy with internet providers.
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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