So, Mom and Dad Called Up ...

[Lapuapalooza]

Funny stuff!!!

My mom was full of these ism’s. One time my grandma flew to Chicago for a Lion’s Club convention. My mom drove her to the airport and was so excited to come back home and tell my dad and me that “everyone on the plane was going to Chicago with her”! Dad and I laughed at that so hard and I’m still laughing writing it here.

 

[Veer_G]

did they find it or do you have them walking back and forth to the car to call you still?

Oh, no, the Mercedes dealership, which was only a one hour round trip side junket for them, was more than happy to detail someone to fish their phone out from underneath the front seat. Mom and Dad go to them slavishly for service on the car, and when they kill one through an accident or mileage, they go back to them, and only them, and buy another. I'm convinced that they screw them royally, but they won't take any advice. Their routine is comforting to them at a stage in life where surprises are generally unwelcome.

 

[Foul Mike]

I am caught right in the middle of this whole bin of shit. I use an old flip phone that I have had for years and keep it because I know how to do it. Calls in and calls out, all I need. It is a trac phone and my Squaw buys me a card and loads it when needed, otherwise I would be FUCKED. NO TEXTING as I am not going to push one button 2 times and the next once and all of that bullshit.
I need to upgrade and know it but keep hanging on with what I have got. If I try a new one that the kids have I usually hand it back and they will say something to the affect of"Goddamn Pa, what button did you push?"

My Mom is 92 and can't run a push button land line phone anymore, it has to be dial and even then she manages to fuck that up and just hangs up. I am 71 but can still handle that one.

These computers are full of Black Magic too. Avatars and links and all of that shit that I don't know how to do but have tried with no success even when someone tries to walk me through it I will fuck it up somehow.

I would love to have an avatar that has a 1st. Cav patch and/ or a CIB in it as those are things I am proud of.

It ain't happening nor do I expect it to. That would require some Black Magic on my part.

This is the only site I frequent and have been here since the start.

This getting OLD ain't easy but I will hang in there til the bitter end and you may be able to do it too if you keep your head above the grass. Regards, FM

PS. I shot the 1000 yard this AM as I do most mornings, at least 4 times a week and you don't want this Old Hippie shooting at you out there. Shoot, reload, rinse and repeat.

 

[clcustom1911]

Yes. It’s North Montana

North Minnesota*

 

[ArmyJerry]

funny stuff, the older I am getting the more routine I am becoming ,,, same dealer brings comfort as long as they get good treatment, glad they worked it out,, great story, just smile and enjoy the time ya got with them VeerG .

Oh, no, the Mercedes dealership, which was only a one hour round trip side junket for them, was more than happy to detail someone to fish their phone out from underneath the front seat. Mom and Dad go to them slavishly for service on the car, and when they kill one through an accident or mileage, they go back to them, and only them, and buy another. I'm convinced that they screw them royally, but they won't take any advice. Their routine is comforting to them at a stage in life where surprises are generally unwelcome.

 

[Snuby642]

My mom and dad first got a cellphone and would call my landline leave a message and turn it off to save minutes.

Arg!

 

[Foul Mike]

Ain't that how it is designed and advertised to go? Save them minutes but let the Kid know we are operating with a call, then hang up and save those minutes?

My phone has 780 minutes and 20 days service left. I will never use that many minutes but they add up.

 

[Snuby642]

@Foul Mike

Not sure I can walk you through but here is a pic for your avatar.
Maybe one of the mods could help?

 

[wildcats]

I can't stop laughing after reading all this posts

 

[Snuby642]

If you are old and read these post, you go aw shit and stop laughing. Lol aw shit.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

@Foul Mike , PM sent.

You can do PM's, right?

 

[Rthur]

I've experienced phone issues with a parent as well.
Father had parkinsons for over 20 years.
There are worse things that can be done with a phone than lose it.
Funny story anyhow.

R

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Noooo.....no smartphone.
I insisted on buying my 84 year old mother a smartphone a couple years ago.
She has discovered the book of feces, I have no peace.
My wife is a very private, very English woman.
"Y'all pray for Joe's wife, they are taking her to the hospital!"
"Joe's wife has dye ver tick you lightus!"
"T**** and Joe have gone to the keys and left me home alone."

My wife litterally had to block her.
I've told momma not to post crap about where I am, or where I'm going and when EVER! I get so mad I could put her on restriction and send her to her room with no smartphone.

After explaining to her that she is posting everything, to everyone she knows. "So?"

I'm afraid every day she is going to give her bank numbers to a Nigerian prince.

 

[Veer_G]

Noooo.....no smartphone.
I insisted on buying my 84 year old mother a smartphone a couple years ago.
She has discovered the book of feces, I have no peace.
My wife is a very private, very English woman.
"Y'all pray for Joe's wife, they are taking her to the hospital!"
"Joe's wife has dye ver tick you lightus!"
"T**** and Joe have gone to the keys and left me home alone."

My wife litterally had to block her.
I've told momma not to post crap about where I am, or where I'm going and when EVER! I get so mad I could put her on restriction and send her to her room with no smartphone.

After explaining to her that she is posting everything, to everyone she knows. "So?"

I'm afraid every day she is going to give her bank numbers to a Nigerian prince.

Yeah. My mother doesn't use the computer or the cell phone, which is to say that she'll make Dad call and then we have the most ridiculous disjointed conversations in which everything I say gets relayed.

The computers (there have been several with which I have set them up in decades past) are my father's province, as I think he's terrified that she's going to somehow discover his past browsing activities. Maintenance is an absolute nightmare, mostly because he is click-happy as fuck and does just about anything that he's directed to do on-screen. I get forwarded, or especially CCed, every bad joke, cheesy graphic, and anecdote that's sent to him, which is to say that my email address gets harvested by spammers. And he tells everyone everything, online or not, about everything that they have and what their travel plans might be. I fully expect one day that they're going to come back home to an empty shell.

 

[myronman3]

my grandpa used to say..”once a man, twice a child”. first time i heard him say it, was while watching a nurse spoon feed an extremely elderly man.

 

[EddieNFL]

So get them a Smart Phone and a Smart Watch and hopefully one can find the other if they loose one or the other, unless they loose both at the same time?

Save my butt a few times.

 

[EddieNFL]

My 89-year-old FIL has a smartphone. To make a call, he pulls out a notebook and looks up the number.

 

[Seed tick]

The old timers may not be great at new technology but they are fantastic at a lot of really important shit. Wish I would have paid more attention.

 

[Ravenworks]

The old timers may not be great at new technology but they are fantastic at a lot of really important shit. Wish I would have paid more attention.

Well they did build the greatest nation on the planet, rather than tear one down