Parent emails...
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- mg33
Wow, I got an email from my mom yesterday, some silly wisdom-infused-pass-this-along to the people you care about and you will be granted good happiness blah blah blah, but it had pictures and she said, "How do they do this illustration?"
After another email to figure out which one she was talking about, it was this:
LOL, she was really mystified. Truly, I have no idea how to explain what a gif is! I'm going to mess with it and put myself in it and send it back to her, or put a giant wiener in the background, dancing.
Funny thing is, there was another one on the page - creepy shit if you ask me - I was hoping she was talking about this:
- 7point340
why is hemingway feeding birds and not drinking himself retarded in a bar somewhere?
- drgs0
my dad added me on facebook
- that is the defining moment where you must close your accounternexbcn
- that and when your boss adds you. such as what happened to me.TeganTorch
- and that....right there....is why Facebook is the Devilmarychain
- Jaline0
My mom always sent me random emails about jobs and items for sale. Like MP3 players, books, and random jokes. When I was looking around for a computer, she kept sending me ads regarding systems that were on sale. It was cute, I guess.
- neue75_bold0
My mother titles every single email she's ever written me – "Mom"
She has also never replied to an email, she always composes a new one... She also doesn't comprehend the notion of paragraph formatting...- hahaJaline
- Mine still doesn't understand resizing windows. Everytime it happens, she thinks there is something wrong with comp.Jaline
- My mom does the same thing, all her emails are, subject line: "Mom" :DComplexfruit
- DanaScully0
thru sheer survival...
my mother taught herself how to text and email so she could actually communicate with me because she calls me too much....
i thought it to be hilarious and super resourceful of her
- ********0
my old dear has never managed more that anout 4 words in a text at a time.
- probably thinks she pays by tletter or something.********
- your mom can text?!TeganTorch
- yeah, no kidding. I've never sent my mom a text because I know she would have no idea how to respond.flashbender
- I still have my dad first text: all with double spaces, 'cause he wasn't able to use t9Fariska
- probably thinks she pays by tletter or something.
- Fariska0
My mom just discovered multiple recipient emails.
I guess that her next steps would be online forums and social networks.
- redant0
My mother is afraid of the internets. My father texts, emails, has an .Mac account, and and an iMac.
- harlequino0
I actually look forward to my mum's emails, as she is really very funny and filled with contempt for hte vile scourge that is humanity, yet filters her obsvervations through a lens smeared with irony and dry wit.
However, we have had a ten year battle over why she must stop using powerpoint to design posters and concert programs for her job.
- wait, your mom is detritus?flashbender
- lol and still the battle rages!ian
- I gave up. She's happy with publisher and powerpoint. Even if she was able to appreciate coreldraw (at least)Fariska
- ********0
My mom is a Myspace cougar but I love her anyway.
- mattiaBK0
My mom doesn't even know how to use a computer! Thank you Lord!
- Tara0
my mom called me one day and left a message that something was wrong w her computer and she needed my help. she somehow flipped the entire screen upside down.
- mg330
Haha Tara. My mom called me once not long ago and asked me how she was supposed to log into her work Intranet's Benefits Site.
I mean, she was literally, literally asking "What do I put for password? What goes in user ID? It's not letting me in?"
I told her THREE TIMES that I could not possibly help her and was just floored that she would even think I would know what to do. She didn't say it, but the underlying "Well you're so good with computers" thought was totally with her. Right on the tip of her tongue.
- Yeah, my mom says the same thing all the time. Doesn't mean you can help everyone with every problem.Jaline
- Jaline0
Point5 and TheBlueOne have some good stories about this, don't they?
I actually feel bad for the baby-boomers who can't use computers or similar technology. It's sad, yet leads to hilarious (and annoying) stories.
- GreedoLives0
My mom uses as many exclamation points in her emails as e-pill does in his posts here (i like to imagine her screaming her emails from a mountaintop) and my dad takes forEVER to respond to emails which is somewhat ironic since he used to be a sysadmin and had to respond to various crises daily.
- robotron3k0
my mom would first send me an email and then call me to make sure I got it.
- Point50
I wish I could go back in time, 2 years, and tell my mother not to get a computer.