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Just had my mum on the phone, shes 74, and she was "wondering" How my tomtom satnav reads signposts :blink:
Ah bless!
We once caught my nan, she was in her 80s at the time, trying to change the TV channel with a calculator :blink: We also took her to Maccy Ds and she wouldn't accept that an eating place didn't have knives and forks!
Vicki x
What do you need satnav for, Blackie?
There's only two destinations in Devon. One is Cornwall, the other is civilisation.
Mrs M5W TT
04-05-08, 21:37
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BASHTHEBISHOP
04-05-08, 21:37
Just had my mum on the phone, shes 74, and she was "wondering" How my tomtom satnav reads signposts :blink:
things are starting to make sense here... :p
;)
things are starting to make sense here... :p
;)
So how do they read signposts?
My grandfather's the same with his computer.
We once had a two hour conversation with him as he couldnt get his printer to switch on.
So after much trying and asking what buttons were on the printer and getting that there were none, we eventually asked what he does when he switches the computer off.
Quote " I choose shutdown from the start menu, press the power button on the monitor, then push the green button on the printer and it goes off"
Response "What happens when you push that green button on the printer now?"
"Oh......the printers just turned on..."
Response by my father who had punched a hole in the door by this point " You senile old F*&king W*^ker!"
Got to love old people....i've decided when i get to old coffin dodger stage that i'm going to be that annoying old git that swims across every lane in the swimming pool at about 2 mph. :d
i've decided when i get to old coffin dodger stage that i'm going to be that annoying old git that swims across every lane in the swimming pool at about 2 mph. :d
When i'm old i'm going to pretend i'm deaf
My dad's 82, just entering his twightlight years. He's remarkably lucid, yes he may dribble a bit and pant, but yet loves his allotment work, and is fiercely independent. His annoying traight is to give basic instructions like "drive carefully", or "was your hands before you eat". I guess its his way of showing care. :) He loves gagets, and I think he wants me to buy him a blackberry so he can send emails to family abroad. I think he could do it too, since hes great at texting.
lol thats one thing my dad dont have to pretend at. If he dont want to hear my mum moan at him, he just swiches his hearing aids off.
Just lost my mum but she had her own 'cock up book' so funny. She once went into an internet cafe for a cup of tea and a cake and couldn't understand why there were so many tellies.
Her best one was taking someone else's dog for a walk by mistake - long story!!
haha, great thread. What a confusing world for older people.
Just lost my mum but she had her own 'cock up book' so funny. She once went into an internet cafe for a cup of tea and a cake and couldn't understand why there were so many tellies.
Her best one was taking someone else's dog for a walk by mistake - long story!!
Do tell!!
My parents are in their early fifties but they still have their blonde moments. God help me when they get older.:rolleyes:
H.
My gran's the same. She's now 89 and completely with-it, just forgetful sometimes. My uncle and his new lady came to visit once, my gran went to the kitchen, put the food in the oven. My uncles other half went to check on the food an hour later to find the oven hadn't been switched on!
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