Parents and mobile phones

[jjinit]

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

excellent

get txs off my dad like that all the time.

he has recently been given a computer at work, so i said "ok dad whats yer email address, I can send you some football stuff" etc etc, so he texts me back....

www.brian@.co.uk

 

[Drew]

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

Same thing happens when my brother's been on my work pc

Printer errors, scandisk, missing icons - you name it.

No wonder i'm so protective oven my hardware.

 

[Morbyd]

I guess I'm lucky. Dad brought home our first computer in the early 80s and Mom emails me regularly.

The only downside is they forward me a lot of crap emails that they find amusing or somehow inspiring

They've both got mobiles too.... haven't tried texting them though, since US companies (aside from T-Mobile) have interoperability issues.

 

[Fraz]

PMSL at this tread

My dad freaks when his mobile rings and looks at it thinks 'who the hell can this be?' Even though the name/number comes up on the screen

Still teaching mom how to send texts. She has mastered how to read them, well when I say read I mean as long as you send proper words and not text words like later/l8tr

I beats me how they manage to get cash out of ATM machines

 

[jjinit]

PMSL at this tread

My dad freaks when his mobile rings and looks at it thinks 'who the hell can this be?' Even though the name/number comes up on the screen

Still teaching mom how to send texts. She has mastered how to read them, well when I say read I mean as long as you send proper words and not text words like later/l8tr

I beats me how they manage to get cash out of ATM machines

no chance my dad still leave work early every thursday so he can go get his wages before the bank closes

 

[Fraz]

PMSL at this tread

My dad freaks when his mobile rings and looks at it thinks 'who the hell can this be?' Even though the name/number comes up on the screen

Still teaching mom how to send texts. She has mastered how to read them, well when I say read I mean as long as you send proper words and not text words like later/l8tr

I beats me how they manage to get cash out of ATM machines

no chance my dad still leave work early every thursday so he can go get his wages before the bank closes

I just asked one of my colleagues (a mother of 2 teenage boys) if she can text She said no embarrisingly Think she might learn tonight

 

[fergie19]

Only just taught my mum to text recently, but there is a severe lack of punctuation, and it takes her about 20 minutes to send one

As for computers, she doesnt even know how to turn the thing on

 

[PachaGirl79]

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

HAHAHAHA. Every now and again I text my dad because it irritates him, every time he is not quite sure how to respond. 15 minutes later when he finally figures it out, ITS IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE HE CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE IT TO NORMAL LETTERS AND NO PUNCTUATION LIKE THIS JUST RUNON SENTENCES

This is a highly intelligent man, but a technological genius, he is not He just learned how to open an email attachment last year HAHAHA.

 

[PachaGirl79]

hilarious thread by the way

 

[Beckiboo]

My mum has the annoying habit of turning her phone on, then going out and leaving it at home!! Sometimes I'll ring her, only to hear ot going off in the front room. When she comes in I'll go "why didnt you take your phone with you?" and she'll go "ohh I didnt think I'd need it"

On the rare occasions she does take it out with her, when I call, after she picks up, I can hear her frantically scrabbling to hold the phone to her ear, before she says (in posh voice) "Hellooooo?"

Bless them they just havent got a clue have they

 

[bripmon]

phew!!!

Only thought it was my parents!!!

 

[LagunaBeachCA]

Hey now! I just recently learned how to use cell phones . I never had one till I started my new job in SD.

It took me a while to figure out how to retrieve my messages. I used to call back my customers and tell them that I could not understand the the message as the reception was not clear.

 

[Rachelj]

oh i here ya.

but check this out, we all bought my nan a mobile as she lives on here own and for safety etc, spent a while showing her how to answer a call and how to make a call (the txt thing would have been way too complicated for her). She come over the house and we say are you finding the phone useful etc etc - she gets it out of her bag, get this:

its still wrapped in the bubble wrap and its switched off!!!! can you believe it