hahaha my dad is pretty good with technology thankfully, the man builds military radios for a living so it’d be a little ridiculous if he couldn’t work a phone, though he’s one of those dad’s that tries to text and is convinced anyone younger than himself spks liek ths lols!!!1111!!1!!! and therefore tries to emulate it…
for example, I punch out something like this on my palm…
“Alright, I’ll swing by the house later and pick it up.”
the response…
“K c u thn, luv u, -Dad”
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Ok true story: My dad called me on his cell phone super pissed off because his rotary dial phone stopped working after they installed their new digital phone service. What was this call for? Did he want me to fix the phone somehow? No not that. Did he want me to call the company and get something worked out? Nope Did he just want to bitch? Nope…
He found the same phone with push buttons on ebay and wanted me to buy it for him! LoL :lol:
When I lived at home I purchased a wireless phone. It lasted until I moved out and my sister dropped it in the pool. Ever phone in my parents house is corded.
I don’t even have a phone in my apartment. 
Umm I know a girl that is ~22 that can’t pump her own gas. Great girl but really weird in that way.
Just think we can inflict this pain on people 20 years from now.
“Gosh darn it, I can’t figure out how to set the clock on my 3D Holocard Player” 
Just think we can inflict this pain on people 20 years from now.
“Gosh darn it, I can’t figure out how to set the clock on my 3D Holocard Player”
I know a girl that is 25 that basically refuses to pump her own gas.
(08:51:59 AM) chino: hey can you help me with something real quick
(08:54:38 AM) Daddie: what’s up
(09:29:20 AM) chino: im trying to transfer money to my online savings account
(09:29:22 AM) chino: at hsbc
(09:29:26 AM) chino: and its not working
(09:39:25 AM) Daddie: hrm
(09:39:27 AM) Daddie: ok
(10:07:23 AM) chino: ok so im going to hsbcbanking.com
(10:07:29 AM) chino: and it says
(10:07:33 AM) chino: page cannot be displayed
(10:07:37 AM) chino: check my internet connection
(10:07:41 AM) chino: what does that mean
(10:08:12 AM) Daddie: uh
(10:08:16 AM) Daddie: that’s not the right site
(10:08:18 AM) Daddie: www.hsbc.com
(10:08:22 AM) chino: oooh
(10:08:29 AM) Daddie: you jackass
(10:08:41 AM) Daddie: who are you, my mom?
(10:08:51 AM) chino: hahahah
(10:08:59 AM) chino: wow you were awfully slow on the pickup
^LOL
I train hotel staff on our software and I have come across some interesting people. Most people in hotels learn what they need to on computer systems - usually ancient old DOS based systems. They don’t learn how it works or why they do something, just which buttons to push to do what. Therefore when they get to our system (Windows based) they freak out.
Most of the time it’s the mouse. I had one lady who practically had a coronary because she pulled the mouse to the end of the table and needed to scroll down more on the screen and couldn’t figure out how to do it.
Also you run into a ton of “hunt and peck” people. Takes them 5 minutes to type their name.
lol i actually never learned how to legit type and technically hunt and peck but its gotten to the point where my mind subconsciously memorized the whole keyboard and my fingers just drift to the right letters even though I don’t know i’m doing it, I somehow can type with two fingers as fast as most people can with ten fingers…I blame internet forums…except for the R key…I blame HL2 for that one
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hahaha
My mom is a network admin for Kaleida, and sometimes I’m not sure how she got the job. :eekdance:
my mom asks me something about her computer at least twice a day.
and normally its the exact same question she asked the day before.
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thats rough. my grandma gets super bent whenever her internet is down, she uses it for everything.
i get frustrated when my mom bitches b/c she wants to bitch, not b/c she wants an answer or some sort of resolution… that’s my only issue. mom i know you’re old, but you’re turning into your mother. cue pin drop do you want the answer to your problem, or do you just want to bitch about it? k, love you, bye.
Hardest I’ve laughed all today, thanks!
My grandmother one time was trying to sign up for youtube so she could post videos that she took using her new little flip camcorder. She gets all mad when I try to sign up for her, saying she can do it herself. Fine. Like 20 minutes later her credit card company calls and this is how we found out she not only managed to navigate to a porn site instead of youtube, but she also managed to registered for their porn in your email service for 12 months. Credit card company obviously thought it was fishy.
Worst part was we couldn’t even laugh about it because she was so pissed off at the time. We had to go outside because we were literally all turning red from not laughing at her.
lol @ chino
The best part was that I could laugh as much as I wanted :fry:
I hate how if anything goes wrong with peoples computers it’s always, “My computer crashed”.
had a guy today that said his computer flipped. when i asked him to elaborate he said that the computer actually turned sideways…
so i told him to turn it back the way it was, he said he was going to do that but the monitor wouldn’t stay that way.
sooooooooooo i go over to the guys office and he somehow set the video card to rotate the display 90 degrees… lol, i told him to use his mouse sideways and it will work fine. he didn’t seem to like that solution so eventually i set it back for him.
I love doing that to people. Flip their screen and reverse their mouse.
Uhghh…
My mom + dad = technological knowledge of a 2nd grader in this day and age.