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Grandpa like Mudkipz!?! I wuz Mudkipz! FIRST
this is much closer to me trying to teach my grandfather to set his digital watch…in the early 90’s….the Seiko/Casio/Timex cheapies with time, date, and maybe a stopwatch…lol
Mudkipz!
No. There’s no way you could explain what THAT is to your grandfather either!
Why were you tryin to teach your gradfather to use the computer in the first place? you deserved it.
also…
Second
This somehow became FML now?
Brings back memories. Just lost my grandpa in January. I remember trying to teach him. He’d always throw a fit and ask how to close the desktop.
I guess the orange and red were a little bit more even for me, but it’s a great graph right there, IMO.
Ageist jerk!
*Agist
Is it agist when its true…?
They DO say the sense of humour is the first thing to go …
Nah, with a little effort and a lot of practice even the grandparents could learn basic computer skills. But it’s just not that important to them and so they don’t want to waste a lot of time practicing. My granddad is quite capable of writing emails and loves to communicating with his grandchildren via email.
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. “
You think teaching your grandparents how to do something on the computer in person is hard, try walking them through a computer process over the phone. GHAAHHH! (hair ripping / teeth gnashing)
My heart goes out to all the tech guys and gals who get the calls of the ones who have no grandchildren to help them!
Ferserious!
Ohmahgawd! -stress fit-
‘Just let me co it?’
Work on spelling before you graduate to graphs dude.
It says “Just let me do it?”
Work on your eyesight before you graduate to read dude.
Get a better monitor.
LOL it said “Just let me do it” Get a better monitor you idiot and even if it said what you quoted, it would have still made sence in a way and still would have kicked ass.
I’d like to see you do any better, make a graph about your terrible monitor maybe?
Looks like “co” to me also, but it’s still silly to nitpick about a typo. The guy probably was in a hurry to finish the graph before his boss caught him doing it at work.
Self-projection win?
Ah! Igad! tell me about it!
My mother does this…then gets pissed off when I get pisssed off.
I think I’ll skip everything next time and just go straight to ” Just let me co it”
This is what happened when I tried showing the computer to my Grandma years ago.
Though if you think about it, by the time we’re old, I’m sure there’ll be some newfangled technology that we don’t understand, and quite frankly, don’t want to understand.
How did you know
Hah. So true.
I’m the delegated “tech support” in our house.
It gets annoying, but at least I’m allowed to give them superior smirks.
That ain’t your grandfather – that’s my mum!
Wait – did I say that out loud?
Crap.
np: Pinch – 136Trak (Black Round Ghosts)
This has never happened to me, but I’m the designated human spell-check in my house. And my dad is practically deaf, so I suffer the same frustration, having to tell him at least five times how to spell a word.
My grandfather is actually an ace at all that — worked for NASA, built me my first computer when I was six, tends to be more in the know re: technology and communications than anyone else I know (including myself).
Thus in my world, graph is titled ‘Outcome of my grandfather teaching my grandmother how to use her computer.’ And it’s even funnier because I get to observe from a distance.
Taught the grandfather how to use the computer. All he does is play Spider Solitaire…all day.
Yep, yep, yep…this puts me in mind of, well, trying to teach my bratty teenage son just about anything worth knowing. Except I actually had to buy his food and support him during his ‘tude days. He’s all grown up now.
I taught my my grand mother who is 67 and now she is glued to it. I have to prepare the meals and give them with a spoon so that she can eat and use the computer at the same time. She enjoys it thoroughly.
“Just let me do it.” Your grandpa needs a competent teacher.
^ THIS
My grandmother’s friends also send around inspirational heartwarming stories with smiley-face .gifs in them and encourage each other to send them around to brighten people’s day.
More like my dad. Printer froze! Lets delete the printer!
Sounds like both of my parents. Neither of whom is elderly, and both of whom have had some exposure to computers for my entire life.
Though I do rue the day my aunt learned how to forward “inspirational” messages about starfish who leave footprints in the sand but, just before they die of cancer, pray for the serenity to accept the things they cannot change.
this is much closer to me trying to teach my grandfather to set his digital watch…in the early 90’s….the Seiko/Casio/Timex cheapies with time, date, and maybe a stopwatch…lol
This graph is SO true
Happend same thing while teaching 
My father turns 80 this year. I would put his computing skills up to most. It is amazing what he can do with a computer. He is teaching himself Ruby on Rails currently.
Please. I tried to teach my grandmother. She can’t figure the mouse out. Hell, she can’t even figure the keyboard out! And she doesn’t seem to understand what “DON’T GIVE YOUR PASSWORD OUT TO *ANYONE*!!” means.
Applies quite well to my granddad too, if you replace “just let me do it” with “it’s better if you do it”…
Not only do I have to teach my g-pa how to use a computer I also have to teach my mom.
We can’t forget the “he makes a facebook and adds me as a friend” option.
Oh!!!
I immediately think of someone clicking a mouse, going
“Hearh, let me doit. NYEH! NYEH! NYEH!”