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.
Let it go, Mom.
Every time I go home to my parents' house, my mom complains about the desktop computer. They bought it in 2004 and it was starting to show it's age with all of the spyware and adware that she downloads when she see's advertisements warning her that her computer may be infected with a virus. Last Christmas, my brother and I decided to buy her a laptop so she could be more mobile and secondly, so she'd finally throw out the desktop. Unfortunately that didn't work and the laptop sits on the kitchen counter while she still uses the desktop and complains about how "slow" it runs. I apparently ignored her complaints for too long recently, so she decided to call her internet service provider of all people to complain about how slow her computer was running. They remotely inspected her computer and explained that she had a ton of adware and spyware that was causing her issues and suggested that she send it to their repair center. When they quoted her $800 in repairs after she had already paid to ship it to the service center, she casually mentioned it to me on the phone one evening. After I convinced her that I could buy her a new desktop for less than $400, she called the service center to have her old one shipped back, which she paid for, along with $195 diagnostic fee. Apparently my mom lives under a rock and doesn't understand that the price of technology has dropped since 2004.
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.
#2
"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.
#4
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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