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.
Save-savvy
The other day I was filling out applications for grad school, and needed a scan of my transcript, which my father'd taken home for safekeeping the last time he visited me. So I called him, asking to scan and email. "I'm not sure how to do that" - fair enough, he never needs to scan anything anyway. I explained to him that he just had to select the scan option on the printer-combination and open the program and it would show him all the options. Eventually he did figure out how to work it - but he scanned it as a picture in a Word file. Also fine, I can still work with that. Then he calls me. "So how do I attach this to an email?" "Like with any other file, you just click the paperclip and find the file." "But I can't find the file." "What did you save it as?" "Save it?" "Okay, go back to the Word file and save it." "How do you save a Word file?" ...No wonder he uses Notepad for all his type-written work.
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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