Your parents + tech = Comedy gold

[DANEgerous]

Today my father had me look up a site and told me "My computer at work has crashed! I can never again access (His email) again!" to which I responded yes... you can do that with ease only to get the rebuttal "Only for like $10,000 Dane (my name) each email address costs about that!" as a man with 4 Email addresses and no money sown on them i just had to laugh an be told to "go the fuck home if i do not think it is true!" by him.

Any one else have a story like this?

 

[TehCookie]

I feel blessed to have parents that are not technologically impaired. My dad's better than me with it. Alas that means I have no funny stories of them being terrible, just awesome story like my dad making my house talk.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

College Humor used to have a column every wednesday about Parents and their mishaps with tech. No idea why they cancelled it though.

 

[Vault101]

my mum is actually pretty good with computers

though both my parents took some time in understanding the concept of a DVD menu....they litery sat watching one for like half an hour

oh and my Dad (100% from the country) was going to take a bus and I offered to give him my card (which tags on/off) but he was not convinced since it had my picture on it..I siad it didnt matter (because it doubled as a student card) but no he would rather not

 

[Goofguy]

My Mom is kind of inept with computers. She learns how to do the things she wants to a point where it's a process written on a piece of paper that she can refer to. You can't ever stray away from that process, not even by one step, otherwise it's the end of the world.

Hell, if she right clicks anywhere, she kind of loses her shit. "Come here! There's a menu that popped up, what do I do??!"

 

[ohnoitsabear]

When my family got digital cable, it took my dad two years to figure out how to work the thing. Two freaking years!

 

[Berithil]

It's only funny when you don't have to stay near when your mom is doing anything tech related. Might as well cause she'll just yell for help 3 seconds after I leave :/

You can only imagine what its like now that she has a smartphone...

 

[Dags90]

My parents are pretty tech savvy. Sometimes my mom is a bit of a retard though, and she's super stubborn to boot. In particular, there was one instance where she couldn't get her new phone's internet connection to work. She was yelling at the customer service rep about how she wasn't going to restart the phone because she already did that. Your basic, "I know what I'm doing even though it's not working". I managed to get her to hang up and give it to me for five minutes. Had it working in under the five minutes, the setting for mobile data was turned off by default. She decided then that Windows Phone 7 was stupid. I'm not a huge phan of WP7, but it wasn't particularly hard to find.

It wasn't really funny though. I mostly just felt bad for the customer service person.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

my dad knows jack squat about computers. and as a man in the IT field I get a call form him about once a week. the answer most of the time is: "just click continue (or save, refresh, etc.)", or "yeah, that's supposed to happen"

 

[blah_ducks]

Something happened to my mom's browser while I was in another state. When I get back my mom complained that her email (from the school district she works at) was too small to read. We're about to go out shopping for back-to-school clothes (aka the same pair of jeans x4) when I overhear her struggling with it. I go over, press ctrl+ and everything works. She was so thankful she bought me a game when we went out ^^

 

[Tahaneira]

My dad is a senior programmer at Microsoft. So yeah. I get my tech gene from him.

I do not get it from my mother. She just... wow. She declared war against the printer/scanner. Formally. Drew up a document of declaration and everything.

 

[esperandote]

My mom has never touched a computer but until just recently she only used her cellphone for calls but now she started using it for messages but she has learned the steps by heart to write one but if she strays away from the steps she needs my help to return to the path.

My former boss, who is an electronics engineer, does some pretty stupid stuff for engineers like double clicking links, typing with only the indexes, and i never could to make him say XML right, he always said XLM and he always nagged me that the software we developed the insertion point should jump through the fiels with the enter key, that that was the standar, just like MSDOS software did, we kept telling him that that was the Tab key function.

 

[lacktheknack]

My Dad does tech for a living, and my Mom can figure it out if it gives prompts.

My instructor at Tech school, however, had an epic brain fart where he attempted to demonstrate a logic probe, was baffled by it not working, re-checking the wiring, reseating the plug, and finally declaring that it was broken, before a student noticed the array of wiring wasn't even turned on.

The instructor then told us that this kind of thing is very common with engineers, and that we (as future technicians) will probably get used to it.

 

[Yopaz]

My dad is a senior programmer at Microsoft. So yeah. I get my tech gene from him.

I do not get it from my mother. She just... wow. She declared war against the printer/scanner. Formally. Drew up a document of declaration and everything.

Was she able to print it?

My mom has a notepad containing details on how she is to do things with her phone. Like adding images to her contacts or to copy text from a book page and add it to a text document.

She is improving, but it's a hassle getting her through it the first time, then the second and the third (she usually gets it after 3 or 4 times).

 

[Saulkar]

My mother is completely clueless! Whenever she tries to use a computer it either ends with it freezing or a new virus. No exception and not really funny.

 

[klown]

Well, these are funny, but my father is a software engineer for T-mobile, so I don't have my own funny stories. My dad would teach me how to do pretty much everything on the computer.

 

[Supertegwyn]

College Humor used to have a column every wednesday about Parents and their mishaps with tech. No idea why they cancelled it though.

They didn't, they just changed the name.

http://www.collegehumor.com/upick

 

[Robot Number V]

Actually, my dad works with computers for a living, so he probably knows more about technology then I do.

Although I remember my grandmother being surprised to see dialog in a videogame. Does that count? (It was Mass Effect, for the record)

 

[Robot Number V]

Double post, ignore.

 

[Myndnix]

My father is pretty good with a computer, but my mother knows...little. Mostly in the terminology she uses- whenever she needs to use my computer for a brief moment (such as to check something), she always asks 'Are you on the internet?' or 'Can you log on to the internet?'. I try time and again to explain how these terms work but she doesn't really get it.

She also has this weird habit of double clicking everything, even though almost everything only requires one click.