Parents and mobile phones

[Barbie]

Are anyone elses parents completely rubbish when it comes to mobile phones

After buying my mum and dad a phone and then teaching them to keep it on at all times (why do old people have mobile phones and keep them switched off ) and then teaching her how to answer it without having heart palpitations in M&S, she's now trying to learn how to text

Just received the following (as it is with spaces ):

I a m a t h o m e i g o t y o u r m e s s a g e g o o d n e w s i v e t r i e d r i n g i n g

 

[silvia]

My mom used to forget she had a mobile on her handbag and I've heard her twice saying: "I hate those mobiles calling and nobody answering in public places" while the mobile that was going mad was hers

In Spain there's Easy Mobile for mums, very easy menus and very big letters

 

[Barbie]

My mom used to forget she had a mobile on her handbag and I've heard her twice saying: "I hate those mobiles calling and nobody answering in public places" while the mobile that was going mad was hers

In Spain there's Easy Mobile for mums, very easy menus and very big letters

My mum used to start shrieking if hers rang in public, 'What do I do with it Sar?? How do I stop it??'

 

[silvia]

My mum used to start shrieking if hers rang in public, 'What do I do with it Sar?? How do I stop it??'

More or less same as mine
She only managed to send me a text and I answered her and ten minutes later she phoned me: I have a new txt, what shall I do?

 

[Jam Man]

My Dad's terrible with them

He just can't handle any type of technology.

He phones me when he cant print from his computer and shit like that.

It's like trying to teach a chimp to tap dance.....

 

[Buckley]

My father spent 3.5hrs trying to get into a computer, but couldn't because the password was 'velasco' and 'the 'v' key doesn't work!'. Eventually, whne I arrived at the office, I discovered that each time he pressed 'v' and the screen displayed the first letter of the password as '*' he was assuming this was a fault and trying again!!

 

[Barbie]

More or less same as mine
She only managed to send me a text and I answered her and ten minutes later she phoned me: I have a new txt, what shall I do?

My sis wrote her idiot proof instructions how to text So everytime she wants to send one she has to get the bit of paper out her bag and go thru the instructions

And don't get me on to when her box gets full

 

[Drew]

Give it up now, i've been trying to teach Ang to text for 2 years now with virtually no success.

I think she's almost mastered how to open a text, that's about it.

 

[Leese]

whenever my mum texts me she always puts at the end "love mum" like I dont know who its from

A girl here at work took her nan out shopping, her nan went to pay for something on her card, and when asked to put her pin number in, she picked up the telephone on the desk and started punching numbers into that

 

[Benson]

lol - parents eh, who'd 'av 'em!

My mum thinks lol is 'lots of love' - which is fair play I spose...but all her messages end with her 'laughing out loud at me'

My gran never got to terms with the concept of 'cashback' on the old switch card!

'So you buy your food - and they give you money back?'

 

[Barbie]

Give it up now, i've been trying to teach Ang to text for 2 years now with virtually no success.

I think she's almost mastered how to open a text, that's about it.

Lol, I think we've discussed before our respective partners inability to text Tom's just about got there but it's so painful and the time it takes I tell him not to bother

 

[silvia]

My sis wrote her idiot proof instructions how to text So everytime she wants to send one she has to get the bit of paper out her bag and go thru the instructions

And don't get me on to when her box gets full

lol at the instructions.

I think my sister has wrote 1000 times the idiot instructions to use the DVD player

Mom is quite good on computers, and last summer she upgraded to a normal user to a user with mouse and she was all proud of herself.

 

[Barbie]

Mom is quite good on computers, and last summer she upgraded to a normal user to a user with mouse and she was all proud of herself.

That's very impressive, my mum's not allowed on my dad's computers cos she ends up getting virus's and everything on them

 

[silvia]

My mum thinks lol is 'lots of love' - which is fair play I spose...but all her messages end with her 'laughing out loud at me'

 

[Drew]

Give it up now, i've been trying to teach Ang to text for 2 years now with virtually no success.

I think she's almost mastered how to open a text, that's about it.

Lol, I think we've discussed before our respective partners inability to text Tom's just about got there but it's so painful and the time it takes I tell him not to bother

She's now decided it might be best for her to read the instructions cos apparently i'm a bad teacher

You wanna see her try and use the mouse for a computer. She waves it around in the air like she's conducting an orchestra!

She's not thick, just a technophobe.

 

[silvia]

That's very impressive, my mum's not allowed on my dad's computers cos she ends up getting virus's and everything on them

In her case it's survival cos in the family pharmacy everything is on computer.
But when they setted up all the informatic systems she learned faster than some of the pharmaciest who are younger than her

 

[Scoobie]

(why do old people have mobile phones and keep them switched off )

Stephens parents do that all the time. we bought his mum a new phone for christmas (which she asked for) and she promised to learn how to use it and not keep it switched off.

We haven't ever managed to get through to her on her phone, and all of our text messages have gone unanswered

My parents are so archaic they haven't even got round to getting mobile phones

 

[coley]

Are anyone elses parents completely rubbish when it comes to mobile phones

(why do old people have mobile phones and keep them switched off

Ditto with my dippy mo who thinks the battery will get canned after 30 seconds.

 

[Jam Man]

don't get me on to when her box gets full ...

(Snigger)

 

[Barbie]

She's now decided it might be best for her to read the instructions cos apparently i'm a bad teacher

You wanna see her try and use the mouse for a computer. She waves it around in the air like she's conducting an orchestra!

She's not thick, just a technophobe.

What is it with Tom and Ange On the very few occasions he uses my laptop for football dreamteams the next time I go on it there's error reports, virus's that need cleaning, I'm like wtf do you do to it