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.
Picture of a doughnut.
My dad has a Mac computer that he is on constantly, and he is used to clicking the little Safari icon to get on the internet. So one day he comes over to visit and needs to get on the internet, problem is I have a PC and he doesn't recognize any of the desktop icons because that look different than his MAC. So he sits down and I tell him that ill be right back, and that i just have to go to the store for groceries. I'm not gone even a half an hour and when i come back my father has managed to open every possible window for every possible application on my desktop except for my google chrome. He has even managed to open multiple windows of the same programs. I now have almost 100 tabs from various programs on my desktop open or minimized. I walk in and see him repeatedly clicking the windows start icon in the bottom left. He looks up at me with an angry and confused look on his face and screams, "Jay!! How do you work this goddamn piece of shit, I think your internet is broken..." Calmly i walk over close all the windows, then double click the chrome icon to get him on the internet. His reply was, "Gosh son I thought that was just a picture of a doughnut on your screen, I am sorry..."
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.
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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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