

Today i was at my M-I-L's because her computer is not able to connect to websites. Here, your mother wants to talk to you, but god forbid if he has a file he wants to cut and paste in his special folder, we'll be talking for hours. it's his way of playing dumb so he can talk to me. my dad is always calling me to cut and paste files, pictures and all, even when i've sent him picture step by step instructions. How they not have this basic skill down yet?!?!?!"įantastic update. "Mom just called me for an excruciating tutorial on copy-paste of a website link into an email. I don't think my dad ever used a computer.
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And she usually takes notes on how to do it, but she can't find her notes. Occasionally, I can talk her through something over the phone, but most time not. My mom is very limited in her computer knowledge. do copy and paste but also click on any pop up that comes up so any trip to their house takes about 2 hours of me cleaning all the malware they have installed on their desktop. But it's never a bad time to listen to that classic recording of 'My Fair Lady' again. Lord knows, he hadn't bought a new record since cd's were invented. My father was really excited when someone gave him one of those turntables that will convert his record collection to audio files. They've made little family documentaries using the Apple studio program. My parents are in their 80s, but still going to the Apple store for classes on a bi-weekly or monthly basis.
It's like when my kid asks me the last time I used algebra. Am I right? Have your parents caught onto the copy and paste wave? I feel this is a very BASIC computing skill that everyone has no choice but to learn. My dad claims he "hasn't needed to copy and paste in over a year." Really? Because I do it everyday. But they continue to reject the knowledge. A couple of times I've even written out explicit, step-by-step instructions. I've tried to teach them this skill at least 10 times over the past five years. It involved me emotionally pleading with them to "stop keeping their heads in the sand." I had a full-blown FIGHT with my parents recently about their refusal to learn how to copy and paste.
