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.
"It's called a speaker because you speak into it, ...
Around 2004 i was in 12th grade, and we had a german teacher (I'm german) around 55, who, it seemed, was genetically unable to use anything remotely connected with electricity. And I'm not talking about computers. One day she had a huge ghetto blaster with her, and wanted to record some students reciting the famous dialogue of dr faustus (goethe). In german it starts with " Habe nun, ach.. Philosophie, Juristerei....". As someone asked where the microphone was, she stated, that you have to yell into the speaker, to record. She made a girl reciting/yelling the text (Go on! Susanne! Habe nun ach! Habe nun ach!! Go on!!!) Suprisingly, nothing was recorded this day. The other day she brought a LP-Player.That was a portable player with a suspension, fixed by screws, which stood widely out. instead of turning the screws about 90°, to pop up the turntable, she just pressed the vinyl brutally onto the screws. She didn't stop until i rushed to her and made her stop this vinylent behavior. We wondered, if she ever listened to music in her youth.
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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