I ragged a bit on my Mom in the 2nd post of this thread, and I really should have added that in the last couple years she’s actually becoming quite computer literate. She does and understands things lately that I would never expected her to grasp. It’s almost like menopause triggered it!
My mother once tried to sign on to AOL by installing one of those “100 free hours” discs they’re always mailing out. She installed it on a computer that had no modem.
She call in to tech support?
I showed my mom the “Turn off the Internet” site and she sort of got that it was a joke, but it still alarmed her a little. “Don’t show me that kind of stuff!” she said. She’s so worried that she’s going to mess something up on the computer.
My dear father, Lord bless him, travels all the time in his RV. The first time the 'rents when on a trip, I suggested that they get a free e-mail address (he already had a laptop) so they could e-mail their adventures from the road.
So he does this, and while I’m visiting one day, I told him I had sent him an e-mail, and offered to fire up the Apple desktop they have in the living room so he could read it. His response?
“I didn’t set up the e-mail address on that computer, only on my laptop.”
Sweet father. He’s now learned to attach pictures of his adventures, so now every e-mail I get from him is at least 750kb. He’s also having a blast traveling the USA.
Sure. Her version of tech support anyway. How do you think I heard about it?
I had just purchased my new digital camera and went up to Ohio to see the Parental Units. I was milking my dad for geneological information and dragging him around to local cemetaries so I could get pix of the old family farm, headstones, etc.
My step-monster, who is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, saw some dumb thing she wanted a picture of and asked me, “Dogzilla, do you have enough film to take a picture of this too?”
My dad and I exchanged rolled eyes, I grinned and took the picture for her, knowing that hours later, dad and I would look at the file and wonder, wtf? Of course, as usual, she forgot she asked for it and never asked for a print and completely forgot she ever asked me to take any pictures for her. That’s how that works with her though, so we just sort of grin and bear it. In this case, it was cute.