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.
"Get on Facebook so we can Google."
A while back, my dad found a dead animal on the side of the road. When he asked me to look up the number to the animal shelter, he asked me to "Youtube it." We make fun of him all the time for it so he HATES the internet, especially when facebook came out. Well recently, he caved and got a facebook. And it was STRICTLY to stay in touch with my sister and I and NOTHING else. I got a call today with a voicemail that said, "Hey just wanted you to know that I have over 20 friends now and soon I'll have more than you. Also, if I want to get a new picture than the one I have now, where do I get the picture from? Well have a good day! And get on facebook later so we can google about our day." (He's still learning facebook lingo)
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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