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TheBlueOne
*phone rings*
me: "hello?"
my mom: "What's the website of that new apartment complex you're moving into? I want to show the girls in the office..."
me: "It's [insert web address]"
my mom: " I don't see anything. Just colors..."
me: "Hold on, let me check..."
my mom: "It's just colors...that's all I see..."
me: "hold on a sec...no, that's the right address..."
my mom: "just colors..nothing else.."
me: "Ah, well the whole site is in flash.."
my mom: "What? Crash?"
me: "No, flash."
my mom: "Clash?"
me: "no, no..Flash...F...L...A..."
my mom: "Flash? I don't know what that means.."
me: "[sighs] It's a web technology mom. You probably don't have it installed in your browser at work..."
my mom: "What's a browser?"
me: "What you're using to look at websites. what is it IE?"
my mom: "IE? I don;t understand..."
me: "Internet Explorer..."
my mom: "I don't know what you're saying...is it the www?"
me: "No, it's not the www..it's a browser program..."
my mom: "Well what if I use the google to find the website, can I see it then?"
me: "No, no...that won't matter..."
my mom: "But I always find everything on the google.."
me: "I'm sure, but you need flash installed...do you have an IT person there? Can you install that at work?"
my mom: "An it person? I don;t understand. And what is this flash thing? is it on the www?"
me: "Mom, I'll just show you when I come up this weekend..."
my mom: "But I want to show the girls in the office, and then you start talking all this crazy things...crash, clash or whatever you're saying..I'm using a computer and the internet is hooked up...I see the www.."
me: "Mom, I gotta go..I'll call you later..."
my mom: "OK...."
May 15, 08, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink
neue75_bold
youtube_link?
- hahaha, zing!– flavorful
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink
canuck
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maybe send screen shots of the site?
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:51 a.m. – Permalink
PIITB
hahahhahahhahhaha. That sounds like me and my mom.
Classic.
- like everyone's mom– Meeklo
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:52 a.m. – Permalink
CALLES
uhh i hate does technical support calls... thy go.. " hmmm is not working... who can we call that knows computers?" next thing you know you spent an hour in the phone and got nowhere
- And yet if you were right there you could fix it in like three seconds...– TheBlueOne1/2
  yes! i just tell them "I'm not doing this"– CALLES2/2
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:53 a.m. – Permalink
adamm
I have had so many of those conversations.... always so funny...
Best part is that you always look like the idiot because they have no idea on how the interweby runs!
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:54 a.m. – Permalink
jfletcher
hahahahaha, awesome!
Sounds like my mom. When she first started using the WWW in 2002 or so, she came to me complaining that the words just cut off at the bottom of the screen... so I had the interesting task of explaining scroll bars.
- hahahahahahahahah. the wods cut off at the bottom of the screen.– PIITB1/2
  she was so concerned... she couldn't read the rest of the page!– jfletcher2/2
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:54 a.m. – Permalink
TheBlueOne
my moms is a pretty spy and with-it 73 (and still working!) but you kinda reach a point where explaining new stuff has diminishing returns...
- =)– TaylorB
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:56 a.m. – Permalink
OSFA
hahahaha!
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:58 a.m. – Permalink
PIITB
the best line: "Well what if I use the google to find the website, can I see it then?"
So true.
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:58 a.m. – Permalink
TheBlueOne
"All Flash Websites: Big giant FAIL on the Mother Test".
Keep that in mind all you Flashinistas. You're all mom-haters, the lot of you.
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 7:59 a.m. – Permalink
Ramanisky2
I'm surprised you didn't hang-up on her sooner
- I came close with the "Flash..f..l...no, not crash. flash. FLASH! FLASH!" part...– TheBlueOne
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink
mrdobolina
Does my Mom work with your Mom?
- Hahaha!– TheBlueOne
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink
drgs
flash ruined my life
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:02 a.m. – Permalink
designbot
hahaa...that's awesome.
I remember one time I was showing my dad this site and he was looking over my shoulder asking "what is that site address? [site name] dot corn"
- Hahaha!! .corn! My dad used to call yahoo, yoohoo...– TheBlueOne1/2
  lol– Jaline2/2
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink
harlequino
Try explaining to a grandparent sometime why "WWW" does NOT stand for the "Great War."
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink
tasty
My grandfather thinks Flash is a virus so he never installed it.
- my mom is an IT at Citicorp sooo she knows everything– tasty1/2
  Lucky!– philipdrumman2/2
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:11 a.m. – Permalink
flavorful
My mama is pretty good with the internets. Apparently leaps and bounds than most mothers from what I've read over the years here, haha.
Only occasionally does she have questions, and they are usually, "So you click the link and nothing happens ... perhaps what we do now is look at the task bar which is that thing at the bottom of the screen which tells you what windows you have and see if there is more than one Firefox."
To be honest that is usually her only problem.
- * they are usually quelled by– flavorful
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:12 a.m. – Permalink
2cents
She never figured out the VCR either did she?
I feel your pain.
- no. it blinks the wring time.– TheBlueOne1/2
  oh, snap. my mom SUCKS when it comes to using the TV and DVD player.– Jaline2/2
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink
cbass99
at least she doesn't tell you to get your transmission fluid changed 30 times!
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Dog-earMay 15, 08, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink
Jaline
"the google"
hahahahaha
My mom is like this too, but a bit better now. She's still surprised when browser resizing occurs (which annoys me, to be honest), and really doesn't get how to use various features in Word. I want her to start using tabs but that will take some time...
- noticed that too. precious little gem.– Corvo1/2
  Browser resizing annoys me too.– flavorful2/2
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