Post by messykitchen on Aug 28, 2015 18:47:12 GMT -5
I don't know if this is an old people thing, or a my dad thing. But it's annoying. So I am putting it here.
My dad is my boss and I usually go in at 9. If I need to go in at 7 for a meeting or some time that's not 9, dad will call me to make sure I am awake, I am 40, dad. I can set an alarm! Not to mention I get my son up at 6 for school so...
Also, electronic banking is evil. He would die before having an ATM card. He won't write checks except to pay bills. Cash only.
And every conversation, no matter where he is or how personal, is on speakerphone. Every. Conversation.
I adore my dad, but he has some interesting quirks lol.
After reading all of this, I'm pretty proud of both my mother and father.
They are remarkably tech-savvy and self-sufficient. My mother even posts assignments online for her students.
They actually both have better phones than I do (and know how to use them). LOL.
This is what drives me crazy about my mom and her phone stuff though! She rocks the oonline stuff for her classes, she helps develop new educational bio programs integrating technology, and she's working w flippin HHMI right now on programming. Like wtf woman you are competent USE YOUR DAMN PHONE.
Thankfully my dad's thing is just good ole anxiety.
Other annoying things old people do with cell phones: turn them off when they aren't making a call. Hey, MIL, your cell phone is completely useless to everyone except you when you keep it off 23.5 hours a day!
My mom does this AND never charges it. I picked her up from the airport one time and it was the most obnoxious thing. "I figured I'd just look for you" WHAT ABOUT ME?!
An annoying thing my dad does is he answers the phone when he isn't actually free. "Hi, is everyone okay? Okay I'm going to have to call you back tomorrow, okay bye." And I'm left there holding the phone like
My husbsnd does that!!! "Oh I am in a meeting, is this urgent?". dON'T ANSWER!!
My mom talks to me on speaker because "cancer" and she also tells me I shouldn't talk on a Bluetooth because "cancer." More than once she hasn't told me someone else is in the room when she's talking to me. Not that I talk shit about others on a regular basis, but COMMON COURTESY, MOM.
My Dad signs his texts, "Love, Dad."
My mom Does the speaker constantly! I'll be telling her about my day and then she'll randomly announce "oh all the ladies are here, say hi!". No! My dad complains he can't even fart privately in his own house because my mom is on the phone on the speaker 12 hours a day.
Communicate with me by phone and text endlessly and repeatedly during the work day. I'M WORKING, YOU RETIRED LAYABOUTS. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Omg yes yes yes. The worst is when I work from home. I'll say immworking and then my mom Still launched into random stories about her neighbour's second cousins ex husband. I SAID I AM WORKING!
Post by daisybuchannan on Aug 28, 2015 19:05:14 GMT -5
I hate when older couples share an email address.
Reply all to emails that either don't require a reply all, or reply all to an email that doesn't apply to them in the first place. For example- yoga teacher is looking for a sub on tues at 9 am. Forwards a sub request to the entire group ex staff (offense number one, I don't teach yoga and will never be able to sub your class). Person replies all back, "sorry, I'm not able to sub your yoga class at 9 am!". DOn't reply all, and don't respond if you're not a yoga teacher!
Post by pegasuskat on Aug 28, 2015 19:17:50 GMT -5
My mom and stepdad can use their iPhones just fine and know how to text, fb and email properly.
My H on the other hand is the annoying old, he is only 51 but you'd think 81. He only uses speaker phone no matter where he is, he calls our kids all the time and drives them crazy. Between him and his 92 year old GM that lives with us and calls wrong numbers all the time and then cusses the people out, I'm living in phone hell.
Post by anastasia517 on Aug 28, 2015 19:25:52 GMT -5
Nobody mentioned the obsession with the weather? Ever single time I talk to older relatives it becomes what the weather is like there and what it's like here. Why do you care so much and why do you assume I do too?
Post by vanillacourage on Aug 28, 2015 19:52:10 GMT -5
My grandpa always calls me and wants to talk at 10am. I'm at work Eddie! But, I can't call him when I'm on my way home at 5pm because he's at dinner already (senior community).
My MIL signs her emails to me "love, MIL" (literally that) which makes me perennially afraid that she's found me here and is being sly about it. But then she calls herself by that name in conversation, in the third person, and pronounces it "mill". lolllll
Post by sailorgray on Aug 28, 2015 20:00:29 GMT -5
My IL each pick up an extension when we talk. Drives me crazy. I think I will be talking to MIL and might say something to her that only another woman would care about and then all of a sudden his voice pipes in. It makes for very artificial conversations bc I don't know who is listening.
My mom inserts entirely unnecessary details into every story she tells, making them 100 times longer than they need to be. And she gets hung up on these details that don't even matter.
Example: "So I went to the pharmacy last night at 6. No wait, it was 7. Well, no, I think it was closer to 6:28. Wait...no it was 6."
MOM! I do not care EXACTLY what time you were at the pharmacy. Just get on with the story.
My mom inserts entirely unnecessary details into every story she tells, making them 100 times longer than they need to be. And she gets hung up on these details that don't even matter.
Example: "So I went to the pharmacy last night at 6. No wait, it was 7. Well, no, I think it was closer to 6:28. Wait...no it was 6."
MOM! I do not care EXACTLY what time you were at the pharmacy. Just get on with the story.
Typing "www.whatthefuckever.com" into the Google search bar.
This is my HUGE pet peeve. I have a frien, like TEN YEARS younger than me who shares a email addy with her husband. It's not like everything I have to say is SALACIOUS, but why does everything I have to say to her have to go to her husband? I would have loved to stay in touch with her when she moved away, but this has completely screwed it up. I DON"T KNOW HEEEEEM. I do not want to discuss my medical crap with a mostly stranger!!!! Get your own email account. It's free, dammit!
My mom puts her phone in a special pocket in her massive purse and then becomes so frantic when it rings that she ca never retrieve it before it goes too vm.
Post by lovelyshoes on Aug 28, 2015 23:39:19 GMT -5
Mil refuses to get a smart phone or text. Texting costs $.10 and she asks me to do it for her from my phone. Not often, but still odd.
She uses AOL. Yep, it's still around. She pays them still as well. Then she uses it as a browser to google google lol and then inputs the entire web address into google. I was helping he recently and she got so upset that I didn't go via her google steps.
She always yells into the phone. I can hear you just fine. No need to yell.
Post by mrsukyankee on Aug 29, 2015 2:46:28 GMT -5
They want no changes in their lives. None. My MIL is freaking out about having to renovate the house despite the fact that everything is from the 1970s or earlier, is falling apart and the shower allows a drizzle to come out (she doesn't have hardly any hair unlike my curls). And even with the renovation, she wants everything to remain the same - same layout, same kind of stuff. NO!!!! Argh.
Refuse to use their DVR. My mom will occasionally set it up to record shows, but using the pause button when the phone rings or they need to get up to use the bathroom or whatever? Newp. Oh, it's just too hard to remember we can even do that!
My dad can get texts, but if the text requires a response, he'll call you because he won't learn how to text back.
My MIL is always worried places won't take debit cards. "Do you think we should call Applebee's and make sure they take debit cards? I don't have any cash!"
My mom calls while I'm at work. I'm rarely at my desk and that's where I keep my cell phone during the day. She knows this and she knows I'm very busy during the day. When I do answer, she'll say, "I called you earlier, what were you doing?" Um, working?
My mom thinks airline reservations are written in stone and can never be changed.
When I was PG with DC2, she was my backup plan to care for DC1. When I was 35 weeks PG, she and my dad decided to go on an impromptu vacation to Florida but she assured me it would be ok because they were not flying. She said they were driving so they could be flexible in case they needed to come home early. You know, because if I needed them, they would just be a short 18 hour drive away.
Which leads to point #2. They also turn their cell phones off unless they are making an outgoing call. There was no chance in hell I was ever going to be able to reach them.
Luckily, the weather was really cold that March and they came home early on their own. DS was born 2 days after they got home, at 37 weeks.
ETA: I just remembered more details. I can't believe I forgot this part. Actually, the weather was bad AND they had car trouble. The remote on the door lock was not working. They were both TERRIFIED of stopping at a restaurant, motel, attraction, etc. and not having the car properly locked. The FEAR was apparently ruining any fun they were having so rather than pull into a local dealership, they drove all the way home to have the remote fixed. My mom was pretty funny when describing how absolutely unsettling it was to not have the car locked while they were enjoying their senior coffee at McDonalds. She was sooooo serious.
My dad is fairly tech savvy but absolutely signs his texts like he would an email.
My mom just doesn't get texting. Was so confused when my sister didn't receive a text - it was because my mom was texting to my sister's landline. My dad was in the hospital and mom tried to use his phone to text me. It was complete gibberish so I replied with "is everything ok?" She called me since "she couldn't find the space bar, so couldn't text." When I finally talked to dad, I said "I'm not familiar with your Android; on my iPhone my space bar says space. Is yours more tricky?" Dad responded "mine also says space on the space bar." Of course when I suggested dad show mom how to use both his and her phones in case of emergency, he told me he had sent her digital copies of both owners manuals and she clearly hadn't read them, so what was he supposed to do?!
My mom thinks airline reservations are written in stone and can never be changed.
When I was PG with DC2, she was my backup plan to care for DC1. When I was 35 weeks PG, she and my dad decided to go on an impromptu vacation to Florida but she assured me it would be ok because they were not flying. She said they were driving so they could be flexible in case they needed to come home early. You know, because if I needed them, they would just be a short 18 hour drive away.
Which leads to point #2. They also turn their cell phones off unless they are making an outgoing call. There was no chance in hell I was ever going to be able to reach them.
Luckily, the weather was really cold that March and they came home early on their own. DS was born 2 days after they got home, at 37 weeks.
ETA: I just remembered more details. I can't believe I forgot this part. Actually, the weather was bad AND they had car trouble. The remote on the door lock was not working. They were both TERRIFIED of stopping at a restaurant, motel, attraction, etc. and not having the car properly locked. The FEAR was apparently ruining any fun they were having so rather than pull into a local dealership, they drove all the way home to have the remote fixed. My mom was pretty funny when describing how absolutely unsettling it was to not have the car locked while they were enjoying their senior coffee at McDonalds. She was sooooo serious.
Could they not have used the ignition key to lock the doors?
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Aug 29, 2015 8:21:22 GMT -5
My parents are pretty good about annoying stuff, surprisingly. They're also fairly young!
But two things they do that drive me insane:
1) my dad will call home and ask where I am... Dad, you called home.
2) my parents will call me while at work and ask if I'm not working. What!!! Yes, I am, that's why you're calling me at work! Don't call during the day if you expect me to be at work.
What is their obsession with snail mail? I swear both my mom and MIL wait at the mailbox for it.
I love snail mail. I send letters to old people just so they'll write me back and I'll get snail mail.
N and my mom are pen pals this summer. It's adorable. I don't think of my mom as An Old, but I guess she could be. She's pretty tech savvy, acts young for her age, etc.
My dad, however, is a different story. He's so smart, and generally with it, but cannot understand the DVR.
Dad: is this recording? me/other person who understands DVR: no, but we can go back. Dad: Wait, I missed that last play, BE QUIET, and go back. Me: ok, hold on (goes back) Dad: So it is recording? Me: No. Dad: It isn't? How can you go back then? What if I want to watch it again? Me: you just hit the back button. It records a 30 minute buffer that allows you to rewind a little. Dad: So it IS recording? Or you can tell it to record now? Me: No, but I'll record it for you (presses record button) Dad: So now I can go back to watch that play again? Now that it's recording? OH HELL, I JUST WANT TO WATCH THE DAMN PLAY!
It's like freaking Abbot and Costello. Except real life.