Nobody tell me that this is cute, okay? My dad. GAH.

[cville]

He wants to be the early adapter for all technology.  But he always uses it in the most annoying way possible, think shouting directions at Siri ending in him muttering things like "shit, piss, and corruption" and Siri being like "the closest irrigation center is 6.3 miles away."  

The latest:  when someone calls my parents' house phone, he gets a text message on his cell phone.  AND IMMEDIATELY CALLS BACK.  Even though I've said like 9,302 times "Dad, I promise, if it's an emergency I'll leave a message or call your cell directly."  No matter where he is.  

Also, he's partially deaf now, so he can't hear a damn thing I say when he, by way of example that happened 2 minutes ago, calls me from the line at Panera.  I hadn't left a message because I was calling about the non-emergency plans to visit them and that involves looking at calendars and stuff, for which it's best if BOTH my parents are there.  At home.  In their house.  FFS.

JUST ORDER YOUR BREAD BOWL.  I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER.

[pooh8402]

stuff like this makes me glad that my dad has an old school flip phone, no texting or internet. he barely knows how to email. and that my FIL just leaves his phone turned off for the most part. we go through my MIL to make plans.

sorry, that does seem annoying. although he just wants to make sure that you're okay.

[malibu]

May 29, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

lol aww.

i mean, OMG. THIS IS NOT CUTE AT ALL. BAH!

Hiiiiii!

[BaliHai]

May 29, 2014 12:01:16 GMT -5 @beagle said:

My mom started texting this weekend. It looks like this:
asda pifoqwa dijapose okar?

ETA:  Parents, man.  I can commiserate.

This is how my dad texts!

My mom's are like this-

Hibaliijustwantedtoseehowlisdoingtoday? Love you,mom

[TrickyBob]

I just tried to help my dad fix his computer over the phone. It involved a lot of him going "wait, is that what you want me to push? No! I think I found it, oop, wait, it went away. Bob, why did it go away?" And a lot of this "a million years ago when dial up roamed the earth I knew how to fix this computer but they make them so fast now and they control everything" with some of this "great, now I have to pay $100 for someone to fix this, whose idea was it to get one?" (after I couldn't solve his issue)

Yours Dad, the idea was yours. Back in 1996, it is now 2014 and a few computers later. Keep up!

[cville]

May 29, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

lol aww.

i mean, OMG. THIS IS NOT CUTE AT ALL. BAH!

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May 29, 2014 12:00:04 GMT -5 cville said:

The latest:  when someone calls my parents' house phone, he gets a text message on his cell phone.  AND IMMEDIATELY CALLS BACK.  Even though I've said like 9,302 times "Dad, I promise, if it's an emergency I'll leave a message or call your cell directly."  No matter where he is.  

this invention is such a strange combination of modern and outdated technologies. lol.

[captainobvious]

My Dad spent five minutes last night yelling at Siri to get info on a restaurant. H had already talked to the restaurant and hung up before Dad gave up. It's so annoying. He's also hard of hearing and just got hearing aids, I don't think he has them turned up high enough or something because he can never hear and is always yelling (and usually inappropriate things.)

I feel your pain.

[sjh722]

May 29, 2014 12:01:16 GMT -5 @beagle said:

My mom started texting this weekend. It looks like this:
asda pifoqwa dijapose okar?

ETA:  Parents, man.  I can commiserate.

My favorite mom text was "goang too see iran" = going to see gram.

We all knew when she got an iphone before she told us because we received a text with no misspellings. Like, group text,
Mom: "I went to the grocery store today and bought milk."

2 seconds later, my brother: "When did you get an iphone?"

[cville]

You guys, I'm cracking myself up. We used to joke as kids about how my mom was always watching us with "the big green eye." So I just took this picture of my own greenish eye and texted it to him. Hee hee.

[cville]

May 29, 2014 12:04:06 GMT -5 sequins said:

awwwww..um.. rgggghhhhhh

That's more like it.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

GAWD, I hope my mom never gets a smart phone.

Or even a phone with QWERTY because I couldn't take the constant texting.

[cville]

Wow. I need to get my eyebrows under control.

[karmasabiotch]

Seriously these are the memories that you will love someday. I don't mean to be the downer but the things that drove me crazy about my Mom and my Dad before the dementia make me laugh the most now.

[sjh722]

Also, my dad was an early adaptor of having a blackberry (LOL, hello, 2004?), but could not for years figure out how to text. "Hey, shoot me an email, I can read it on my phone ::takes phone out of belt clip and shakes it at you::. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO TEXT. Don't text me. That takes too many keystrokes."

And then he (in 2013, when he had, to his credit, mastered the ability to send a text) had his smartphone not synced to his work email for FIVE MONTHS because he wanted to be able to look at the emails at his desk, because people send him a lot of spreadsheets he wants to print.

His latest get off my lawn problem is why anyone would use their phone to play music. I expect to be doing iTunes troubleshooting for him sometime in 2018.

[BicycleBride]

My parents are pretty good at technology but my uncle is a different story. He'll call me over to his house with computer problems that I can't even begin to explain. Like one day he wanted to reorganize the layout of some money related website so it was more convienant for him. He could not understand why he could not reorganize the website since it was on his computer.
::insert head banging against wall gif here::

[bohemianmango]

LOL. My mom sends texts to DH and me but they're full-blown letters starting with "Dear" and ending with "Love, Mom."

[MixedBerryJam]

May 29, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

lol aww.

i mean, OMG. THIS IS NOT CUTE AT ALL. BAH!

Yeah, he's no pagasdad

[melodramatic26]

My poor dh. He's really smart with computers and it's part of our job so he gets ALL the computer questions from my mom. All of them.

She decided she wanted a laptop (why? NO IDEA. She only checks email and facebook). So she's been asking dh all these questions for months about what to get.
He finds a great laptop for her. Sends her all the info. Two weeks later, she emails that she bought a different one --- off of QVC.

[ctrlaltdlt]

May 29, 2014 12:51:22 GMT -5 bohemianmango said:

LOL. My mom sends texts to DH and me but they're full-blown letters starting with "Dear" and ending with "Love, Mom."

omg, yes!  and same on fb.  mom- I know it's you, YOU'RE POSTING ON MY WALL!

[jane6672]

May 29, 2014 13:17:39 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

May 29, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

lol aww.

i mean, OMG. THIS IS NOT CUTE AT ALL. BAH!

Yeah, he's no pagasdad

LOL

[berbles]

My grandpa is on facebook. He doesn't really use it, but is on there to stay in touch with family.

He frequents a cafe that apparently checks him in whenever he's there. None of us can figure out how they do it. He's got like 20 check-ins at this one place, but has never checked himself in anywhere. It's bizarre.


Also, I feel like I'm the only one who was SO HAPPY when my mom figured out how to text. Now I don't have to have a 20 minute phone conversation when all I needed to tell her was that I would stop by on Friday. It's the best!

[textbookcase]

My parents are the worrrrrst. My stepdad just started emailing and texting and he calls me a million times a day, asking things like, "I put the email addresses in my email address book, now how do I find them when I send an email?? What if I text someone and they're talking on the phone? Will my text just float around forever? What if their phone is off? What does brb mean?!?!"

[Deleted]

parents!! LOL

It bugs me that people will call my office and say " someone just called me but I missed the call...who was it and what did they want?" Um...we are an office with many people. I have no clue who called you but if they really wanted you, they would have left you a message". GRRRR

[tigress]

Yes. I got a happy birthday text from my mother with Love, Mom. Every single time lol. It cracks me up.

[lpcats]

My MIL has taught her iphone text speak. So autocorrect is no use. It takes forever to decode what she's trying to say.

[sineadorebellion]

Introducing my dad to texting was bad, but showing him Craigslist was worse. Now he wants to buy all the crap and emails me links to things. No dad, I don't need a 1990 Honda.

[felicity]

May 29, 2014 13:28:14 GMT -5 berbles said:

Also, I feel like I'm the only one who was SO HAPPY when my mom figured out how to text. Now I don't have to have a 20 minute phone conversation when all I needed to tell her was that I would stop by on Friday. It's the best!

This is me too. My mom is such a phone person, whereas I avoid the phone as much as possible. She'll ramble on and on when we talk on the phone but she is a surprisingly succinct texter.