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.
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
I have to preface this story by saying my mom is a very intelligent woman. She is one of the city managers for a city in Alberta, Canada. However, that being said... she has a hard time with mobile phones. When I left Canada to go and live in Scotland, I gave my mom my old mobile- nothing too fancy but it was nice: a full keyboard pebble with a large screen. Unfortunately this one she forgot in her jeans pocket and washed it in the washing machine- twice. So, she has had to buy a new one. This one, for some reason, she cannot understand where the speaker is and where the mic is. On several occasions I have been yelling at her over the phone saying "Mom, I CANNOT hear you... something must be wrong with your provider". Only to have her get frustrated with me, hang up, then call back a few minutes later sheepishly telling me she had the phone upside down. She will also call me (keep in mind I live in SCOTLAND- 7 hours time difference!) to get me to explain computer problems to her, even though she has an IT man on staff. Her reason- she doesn't want to appear stupid.
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 »
#3
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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