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.
"The name's Google. I run these parts."
The other day I'm telling my father about a video on youtube and that we should look it up. He proceeds to open his computer and open up Internet Explorer (strike 1) he then goes to the search, not the address bar, the google search bar (strike 2), and types, with one finger(strike 3), "http://www.google.com" takes him a solid 30 seconds (Strike 4) Now that we're at google, I'm watching on, stunned, as he types, into the google search bar "Http://www.youtube.com" (Strike 1,000,000). I ask him if he knows that you can just type youtube.com into the bar at the top, his response is: "I know, but I'm more likely to get a virus just freely roaming the internet than I would if I go through Google." My dad thinks Google is some kind of internet cowboy sheriff.
My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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.
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 »
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.
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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