My mom got a new iPhone about 5 years ago. About six months later, she began complaining that she needed to get another new phone. “The battery kept on dying.” So I took a look at it, and couldn’t figure out the problem. Then I noticed that all her apps were still running. Every app that was ever used, even for a second, was still running. So I was going to swipe out of them so they were no longer running, and my mom starts freaking out. She thought that if you swiped out of the apps, you would delete them. So I began to explain to her that I was not deleting her apps, but she interrupts with the “I am older so I know more” remark. So I just swiped out of the first couple of apps, with her yelling that I deleted her apps, and proceeded to show her that they were still there. She still was upset, so the next time she wanted me to do something on her phone, I just swiped out of all the apps. And sure enough, a week or so later she comments on how her phone magically fixed and the battery is good again. Parents are great and all, but can be so stupid and ignorant sometimes.
My mother complains all the time about how her battery dies so quickly. I found that odd, since she works a job where she can't even get ro her phone unless it's an emergency, so there was no way she was using it enough to drain thw power. I would also like to preface this with the fact that she has had a smartphone for longer than I have. Spoiler alert: I taught her how to turn off her screen when her phone is in her pocket. My next goal is teaching her how to change the settings BACK so her phone screen will actually turn off after a few minutes instead of NEVER going into sleep mode or whatever it's called. Please help me. Even my grandmother is not this technologically illiterate. She can at least remember how to adjust the brightness of her tablet screen or turn the orientation lock off (most of the time, if it's been a few months she sometimes needs a refresher of how to get to the settings/drop down menu to fix it).
@@kattriella1331 my mum does the exact same thing and then gets angry when she accidentaly calls someone. You just gotta try to explain it to them as nicely as you can or just snatch her phone and put the screen timeout to 30 seconds. Either she solves it or you do.
My mom will send me a text or leave me a voicemail asking me to call her as soon as I can because she needs to talk to me. Me being kind of panicky sometimes will immediately think, “Oh, god! Dad’s dead. My brother’s dead. One of the cats is dead!” ...No one is ever dead. It’s always something that could have easily been put in the initial text or voicemail.
My mother called my work. Asks specifically for me on the phone. I talked the call.. She asked the street name of the store because i friend wanted to know it. I didn't had my phone with me, but she could asked the person who picked it up. I had to walk to the phone. When i came back, my co workers looking surprised and asked what happened because it looked like something bad happened 🤦🏻♀️
I used to tell my kids to "Just Kill Me" if I started acting the way the grandparents were. Now, I'm not sure if I'm doing old people stuff, but I stay away from my windows at night unless the drapes/blinds are drawn.
My mother won’t believe anything her husband and kids say. Later she’ll be told the same thing by some random person and she’ll take it to heart. Case in point she swore up and down someone’s mom recommended strawberries and sour cream. I told her that’s not right. She meant whipped cream. Cue my mother becoming progressively angrier that I must be wrong. I pull out my phone and message the my classmate, the woman’s kid and get back a verification that I’m in fact right. Mom gets louder and angrier. She then, out of spite, prepares strawberries and sour cream, beginning to spite eats them to prove me wrong. It’s like watching Sheldon Cooper when the power was out trying to goad Leonard back from Penny’s place. Mom eats two strawberries. One with cream, the second without. She then ignores the dish for the rest of the night. From then on if the topic came up she’d swear she’s still right. I, my brother, nor my sister still talk to her and my father left her. She’s difficult, and has only gotten worse with age
765respect I have. Cut her out a while ago. Now once or twice a year I get a bunch of emails from her, each increasing in anger and frustration, because I have no right to treat her the way I have. No apologies from her. No mention why I chose to do this. In her mind I’m completely unreasonable and cruel.
@@redram5150 I'm 50+ and my mom is in her 80's now and approaching a similar level of stubbornness. I love my mother dearly but her inability to take any form of correction whatsoever TERRIFIES me. How will I take care of someone who responds to everything I say or ask by deliberately freezing or doing some opposite action? It fillllllls me with dread :(
4:30 reminded me of something that happened when I was 3-4 Mom: eat this cereal bar Me: no Mom: eat it Me: no. Mom forces cereal bar down my throat I proceeded to have an allergic reaction due to the peanuts in the bar, and almost died. This was before we knew about my allergy.
I'm 60, and this is why I can't stand to be around people my age. I have an acquaintance who won't remove the auto reply from her texts, so every time I respond, I get, I'm sorry, I'm not available right now....😠
I hear you! I'm 65 and it's for stuff like this that most of my best friends are somewhat or even significantly younger than me. Lots of people around my age just make me nuts. When I was younger, most of my friends were older or younger than me.
Gene Miller I’m 20 and I appreciate older people like you guys who can get their shit together. My fiancé’s parents are in their fifties and they are completely helpless when it comes to technology and their views are outdated but they won’t take the time to learn anything new.
I’m a teenager but I’m glad older people are taking part in technological things instead of just dismissing it as they didn’t grow up with it. Just because it’s not from your generation, doesn’t mean it’s useless.
They don't understand my type of videos. Every time my mom overhears me proof-reading, she thinks I'm trying to "code myself a friend". Reddit and the internet in general are foreign concepts to my parents, especially online multiplayer games.
Grocery shopping, I tell my wife, stay in the car-me and the daughter can do this in 10-15 minutes. She insists on coming in. We have it done in the projected time and she has not yet gone down one aisle. Left to her own devices, she would take two hours. We are in our 60s, and she whines because we don't want to take her anywhere. There's a great reason for it. Shopping is not so fricking riveting one wants to spend the whole day at it.
try the pre-order option if available. i'm primarily a shut-in and i absolutely love it. i can do all my shopping in 30 minutes and then just have someone pick it up for me. to do that amount of shopping every month would take nearly the whole month for me as i cannot walk very long at all, not long enough to get around a whole big store.
I look at shopping as a social and low impact exercise opportunity. I always run into ppl I know and have a quick catch up and walking around pushing something gets me moving, something I don't do enough of sitting around the house.
These had me laughing out loud, annoying the heck out of my silly small dog who was trying to sleep. Sadly for me, I AM old...73, in fact. I swore to myself I never would get this way, but sure enough, everything about me has slowed down-brain, body, grocery shopping, remembering names, learning new information, etc. And hard as it is to believe, it will happen to almost everyone, if you live long enough. Some things older people can’t help, due to physical problems or brain deterioration. But a lot described here is just due to plain old arrogance and stubbornness. I suspect many of these people were lacking kindness, good manners, and humility even in their youth. They just no longer control themselves as well as they may have when they felt they had more to lose. Hopefully they will develop some gratitude before they lose those people who are most important in their lives, their kids.
Slowing down is understandable. If an old person is walking too slowly in front of me, I understand and will be patient. If I have to teach an older person something 2 or 3 times, I understand and will teach you 2 or 3 times. What I won't understand are stupid old people who stop in front of doors as soon as they walk through and block everyone or old people who outright refuse to learn, using the excuse that they're too old to learn. People need to learn the difference between someone declining physically/mentally, and stupid old people who used to be stupid young people.
One thing I ADORE about elder people is how you write. Maybe it's just a select few, but the perfect mix of storytelling and life lessons mixed in just keeps me mesmerized. I wish you well.
On the converse side, I work in a hospital usually full of old sick people. I see octogenarians using up to date tech that even I am not up to date with. So they can do it, I think some older folk get lazy brains.
Oh god my stepmom told me that in 2008. I work in IT and nobody was taking paper resumes from random people. She would not believe that things have changed since she was an HR manager. She’d been retired for a decade. 🤦🏼♀️
They act like because they wiped my butt 20 years ago that I don't know what I'm doing. Are you sure this is how you fix the car, are you sure this is the best way to fix the plumbing. Like I do this for a living you are a store owner I am a matinance worker i don't tell you how to run a store you don't tell me how to fix. The water
Loudly complaint (in public) about things like politics, lgbtq+ stuff, how annoying kids are, you know. We came back from vacation yesterday and she kept complaining about the countries in front of the taxi drivers. Oh and having a seemingly friendly conversation with someone and 15 seconds after they leave it’s all “she was so.....” “he can’t....”
2:19 She might be using the speakerphone because the earpiece speaker may not be loud enough for her ears. I knew an old man that had hearing problems. He eventually found the speakerphone function on his cell phone, and started using that to make it easier for him to hear (while still holding the phone to his ear). He thought that was a volume boosting function for people that had hearing problems, and I tried to tell him no, that is just the speakerphone function that all cell phones have, and its primary purpose is for hands free talking, not a volume booster for the hard of hearing.
5:00 my older brother ( who is only in his early 20's mind you ) will fall asleep in front of the TV and when you try to change it he wakes up, tells you off, and goes back to sleep Edit: 16:03 I'm not even in my 20's yet and I do this...
My parents still haven’t figured out that the new Roomba I got them for Xmas can be scheduled. They come home from work every day and thank me for vacuuming with the Roomba. You’re welcome. 🙂
My grandparents were shocked when they saw me using my laptop (with my phone as a WiFi point) at their house. They complained that now they were going to get charged for internet (which they do not have).
Oh i have a very weird one: My grandparents, (nana 62) (papa 63) (My mom is 40) Now, they STILL call each other mama and deddy. (This is a daily convo) “Deddy, whatcha want for dinner?” “Uhhhh i dont know mama, call and see if genes are open” (Nana also holds her phone (charging end) almost against her mouth, and she has EVERY call on speaker)
I used to get really annoyed with my dad for always calling me by my sister’s name and calling my sister by my name, but now that I have 2 kids and a dog I kind of get it because I do the same things some days. I’ve even asked my boyfriend for “mama kisses” before which is what I say to my kids when asking for a kids. I think my biggest genuine annoyance with my parents is when they get mad at me for asking for help with my kids. My boyfriend is gone for weeks at a time with his job and when I ask for help when I’m at the end of my rope I am usually told that I can handle it because they did. Even when my parents were single parents they still had close family to help support them. Annoys the crap out of me.
Typical ingratitude from the boomer generation. They don't acknowledge the help they received because they felt entitled and were not grateful for the help they received. Since they won't acknowledge the help they received, they truly think they did it all by themselves.
Haha, my grandmother had the same name issues with us kids. Now I do, even adding the cats and dogs names to the mix. Have called the granddaughters by their father's name. Have ended up calling their papaw their daddy. I'm so sorry your parents don't want to help. I wonder why. At some time maybe you should guilt them and point out the help they had. But your kids will feel the possible disdain and reluctance for them while babysat. My mil did not like my sons and they felt it. They were very energetic, willful and the wrong color. Fine, I didn't need her help anyway bc by the time I moved here they were 12, 8 and 4. I'm an independent minded boomer and since I was in the military for 21 yrs, I was not near family. Had to depend on childminders, babysitters to help with the kids. They were very reluctant to watch the kids on the weekends. I am fully aware of how difficult it is to raise kids on your own and without the help of relatives. So I whole heartedly will take over when asked. Had to keep one granddaughter for 2 full yrs when her mother went to jail, now have her intermittenly. Second grandie had to stay with us when her mother recouped in hospital from mental illness. We still babysit her overnight for 2 days a week. She is such a joy. I consider the grandies a great pleasure and love that they are safe with us. My sons are so grateful and will do anything I ask whenever I need them to. I don't ask them for much, just a few odds and ends bc I'm not tall or strong enough to do somethings. I don't ask for money bc I have more than I need. My husband has always been jealous of any kids bc they take away time from me for him, sigh. But his mother forced him to take care of all the children she bore while she went to church and did churchladies hair. I feel that when I need help as an elderly person, the boys and their kids will be there for me.
I have insomnia and I enjoy ghost stories, I binge the "what's the scariest supernatural thing" videos late at night until I can fall asleep. I live for the moments when the robo-voice mentions "Teal Doctor" (TL;DR). Robovoice: "[insert long, rambling ghost story full of hilariously mispronounced words here]. Teal Doctor: it was dark and scary, at twelve. Zero. Zero. At night. And then a skeleton popped out."
@@pietrayday9915 I guess that I can kind of see the humor of these TTS programs inability to properly pronounce words and overall sound unnatural and inhuman. But, to me it gets a little grating, like so very few uploaders actually care to edit, correct or proof-read these videos so they can sound more palatable.
My wife installed 15 toolbars on her browser. The usable screen was reduced to about 3 lines of text. When I went to remove them, she complained that she used them all. Every. single. one of them. And maybe it's just me, or just the people I know. But I became a truck driver. Drove 375,000 miles with no accidents. But everyone I know insists I'm a bad driver because I crashed the car twice back when I was 17, and the speeding ticket I got when I was 21. I was over 40, so these were not recent events. I'm over 50, and people still make snide comments about my driving ability, even while insisting I do all the driving.
The thing with calling everyone’s name before OP’s? I don’t know if it’s parenthood or silvering, but everyone with more than one offspring can probably relate. My Nana did it. Only my father there, but she still called his five siblings before him. I started doing it after only my second child, but I included the dogs.
Sweet Little Weasel yep, my son comes to visit and I call him by my dog’s name. He’s never complained, maybe because the dog’s name is Rambo, and my son is a muscle-builder gym junkie!
I refuse to drive my mom anywhere, I've driven her somewhere maybe twice since "the incident" where she frantically shouted at me to turn right and then shouted at me that I had missed the turn three times before I pointed right and shouted WHERE? And she suddenly admitted she had meant left the whole time, but it was still my fault. When she gets old enough that her driving scares me, I'll have to drive her again, and she'll shout about the car half a mile down the road that's going to hit us, when she's the type to make left hand turns right in front of oncoming traffic.
Don't feel bad. You are not the only one trust me. My dad is the same way when I drive. Literally nothing can be done to satisfy him when he is in the passenger seat. Im 33 by the way and have been driving since 15 when I got my permit so it's not like I am a new driver. He will yell at me to the point that I can barely focus. I have got out of the driver seat at a stop light and left him sitting in the middle of the road because I felt like I was having a heart attack. It really depends on his mood and not so much my driving which is super frustrating. I know it's not really my driving because none of my other family members have anything to say about how I drive including my mom. I didn't mean to go on so long but this is a particularly aggravating part of my life. Lol
telling my father to not turn left yet, getting cursed at, and watched the tractor trailer's headlights coming at us that nearly killed me. i carried a CDL. felt sorry for the trucker.
Driving my dad is intensely stressful. He cannot speak, he just watches the road ahead for potential hazards, and tells me “woman with pram” or “truck pulling out of side road” . As though I will plough into pedestrians by the road. When we go round a corner he holds on like I’m going round it at 100mph and the g force will unseat him. I drive a tiny one litre car, and drive painfully slowly, well under speed limit, no overtaking, and just pull over if anyone wants to get past me, and I always have. But for some reason he thinks I’m driving a Porsche off road in a death race.
My MIL must have continuous menopause/hot flashes because her house is always freezing. One year at Christmas me, her kids, and the grandkids all got blankets as gifts because we’re always so cold.
That reminds me of my grandma: -She doesn't know how to turn her iPhone on -She randomly switch the night and day mode on Adobe Reader on her tablet while reading -She calls the WhatsApp Facebook and vice-versa -She also doesn't know how to change channels on the new TV -She also struggles with the unfreeze options on the microwave, she says that "it changes the taste of the meat", it doesn't -If I spend too much time on my cellphone or in a computer she complains that "I don't know what is so interesting on this thing that keep you looking at it for so long" yet she reads lots of books on PDFs on her tablet for hours (¯―¯٥) And I could stay aaaall day talking about these things my grandma does, but I'm lazy and I'm tired now
The thing that annoys me is no one knows how a computer works until we try different things and learn to do it of our own back. It’s not some thing just all people younger than them are born knowing. If you don’t try then you don’t learn simple.
@High Shaun no, she just doesn't really want to learn, we try to teach her but she doesn't want to learn how somethings works, alway with the excuse of "I'm 79 years old, I'm too old for this", she's really stubborn =/
I'm 32 but I do that thing where when I hear somebody open the refrigerator I announce what's in it for them haha. I don't know, I just keep thinking that they won't notice if there's something behind something else. I want them to have full knowledge of what's in the fridge 😹
My mum has 2 bank accounts and still gets on the bus for 45 minutes to go to the nearest bank to get money out of one account and put it in the other, she doesn't believe in online banking
hello from the future. That is actually becoming a wise thing to do now, with scammers actually being now able to hack online banking and even hijack banks' actual phone numbers. A woman recently here in Australia lost $36000 to a scam, while using the banks genuine number!
My mother has a thing where she calls any electronic of mine (ipad, iphone, imac, we are an Apple fam) my ipad. Just constantly “oh why did you leave your ipad on?” (Ipad is in her hands) “???” “Youre umm ipad. Youre ipad. Tablet? Iphone, there”. Just constantly like that lmao
I'm 60 and want dinner after 9. Pisses my husband the f*ck off. Son came over at 10 last month to me making dinner. He laughs and says "Some things never change!".
Thats always been the most annoying one lmao.. (Finishes cooking something.. Ohh hey a tasty hot meal.. The fact it is fresh off the stove or out of the microwave is a great flavor in its self.. Im gonna go sit over there and watch something while I enjoy this Freshly HOT out of the microwave or off the stove...) 2 minutes later......... *Parent figure* "Why is there a dirty pan here? You need to clean up before you eat!!!!!" (Also parents at family get togeathers.....) "Come on sit down while the foods hot!! HEY *little random kid in the family somewhere else* YOUR FOOD IS GETTING COLD!!!! OMFG COME OVER HERE AND EAT BEFORE IT GETS COLD!!!!!!"
My grandmother was tech illiterate. We had a TV set up for her with a VCR connected, so she could watch shows that were recorded on tape. On the TV, we told her to only touch the power and volume buttons (and we had tape covering channel buttons, to indicate that she should not touch those). She would often tell me something was wrong with the TV, and the problem was that the channel was always changed. I told her that she caused the problem by touching the buttons that were covered with tape, and she outright insisted (every single time) that she did not touch those buttons. I took the tape off, and taped a hard plastic cover from a small container over the channel buttons. Ever since I put that cover on, she never had that problem again.
My mother loves taking pictures of family, especially the grandkids, but refuses to learn how to use a digital camera. For about twenty years, she bought those old Kodak disposable cameras by the dozen. When Wal-Mart and Walgreens started phasing them out, she'd tell everyone who would listen how unbelievable it was. I bought her an incredibly simple digital camera and tried to show her how to use it, but she instantly gave up. And forget about getting her an iphone/Android of any kind. That would be on par with translating Egyptian hieroglyphics. Now, at family gatherings, she simply tells us, "Make sure to take pictures," then pesters us for weeks after for copies . . . printed ones, of course.
I was born in '98 and my mom taught me to type. She said that after periods you needed to put two spaces. I later found out that nobody actually does this and it comes from the days of type writers.
Yeah, it's funny that nobody does this anymore but the fact remains that no authority figure in etiquette or wherever such decisions are made and put into practice has ever said, "It is now perfectly fine to only put one space after a period." This reminded me of a story a few years back when the oldest millenials were just teenagers and were struggling deeply with grammar, diction and proper spelling. The powers that be were bouncing around the notion that the aforementioned generation just wasn't smart enough for correct grammar and that it might be acceptable to implement a phonetic spelling system. Jesus...get a fuckin' dictionary.
I do the two spaces after a period thing because that is funnily enough that was what my mum taught me also. It just seems to be the more natural thing for me, and the spacing looks better too.
My parents started using the internet about twenty years ago. They have a tiny piece of card with passwords written on. Over the years they have lost and changed passwords, now it’s impossible to tell which password relates to which thing. Apple, google, email, online shopping etc. after twenty years of suggesting they get a VERY LARGE piece of paper and write out the passwords, and if it’s case sensitive make that clear. at Christmas I realised they got connected twenty years ago and I’ve been doing password resets for twenty years, and they still use this tiny piece of card. Both retired, both intelligent.
My family just referred to my gaming consoles as "your game" with the understood context being that they were referring to whatever was my newest one unless otherwise specified. They never tried to embarrass themselves by thinking they knew anything about it.
My mom types with one finger and then has to stop and stand in place to type. She also has her ringtone at full all the time unless she's in court. She also still can't understand how to use the back button on a phone or tries to find a coupon in her email but doesn't use the search bar while insisting on scrolling for about five minutes instead. My uncle also thought chipotle was called chip-oh-lee.
Not my parents, but my maternal grandparents are basically absolutely refusing to plan for their future. They havent given anyone power of attorney, and my grandfather has parkinsons and my grandmas memory is going. They live out in the country and only told us they dont want to consider 55 and up housing AFTER we took them to visit prospective housing. Something bad will happen, and they wont be able to cope, and it will be on us to pick up the slack at great cost to ourselves. And if you think they are happy for our help well... they are almost shut ins and have lost most of their social awareness.
My mom has her phone for about 3 years now and she still doesn't know how to add someone's number to her contacts. She also insists that I take pictures of her because selfies aren't the same thing. She also doesn't read the labels of the products she want at the supermarket. My dad rants about the TV having nothing interesting while zapping all the channels in a row. He also doesn't answer you if you call him, but gets mad if he calls you and you don't answer.
My dad's computer is out of WiFi range, so you have to connect it to a booster. Every day my dad turns on the pc and gets angrier and angrier that the WiFi isn't working. I show him how to connect to the booster. Magically, the computer works. Next day, same thing. After a week of this he insists on calling in 'his man' to fix the computer, which costs him a ridiculous amount of money. This has been going on for about a year and I don't want to think about how much he's spending.
I repair cash registers. When I have a cash register clearly disassembled, it is more often the older people that do not realize that: 1. The register is not open (to shoppers), and cannot be used. 2. I am not a store employee, and I am not the person they should be coming to. 3. If a person is doing work at a store, that does not automatically mean they are an employee of that store.
8:50 - That's my wife!!!! She's the most technically illiterate person I've ever met, but got interested in the internet when her friend discovered chat rooms (1990s). She would come home from her friend's house and ask me about how some computer software worked. Note: I BUILT the computer she was using and juggled all of the incompatible 'dialers' her various on-line programs used so they wouldn't conflict (techy people from the 90s are wincing and rolling their eyes right now), not to mention that I was making a living as a computer network technician at the time. After I finished explaning, she'd tell me that I'm wrong. Then about a week later, she'd come home from her friend's and say "Did you know that this works such and such a way?", and what she told me was the same thing I told her a week before, but because her friend told her, she would believe it. This became almost a weekly occurrence. Finally I told her that if she asked me a computer question and then told me I was wrong, the conversation was over. After a couple more incidents I just started telling her "Go ask Phyllis, you won't believe me."
Every sound my phone makes is a phone call. Whether it's a call, text or an alarm. "Hudaef, someone's calling." "Mom, it's just a text." "Hudaef, someone's calling again." "It's an alarm Mom. For the show I wanted to watch."🤦♂️
My dad is 64. I wake up at 7am on a sunday as the sound system blasts out whatever movie hes watching. He has done this for the last 15 years at least. Not an age thing, just dad flaunting how early he got up I guess. I keep getting shit for waking up at 9 for being lazy, and otherwise if I make noise.
My grandmother is 66 im pretty sure. I grew up playing old pc games and N64 titles like zelda with her. She needs help with things but shes easily more comfortable with a computer then the vast majority of "support" i have ever spoken to. Im lucky.
Mom and dad constantly bring up the current state of their bowels as small talk, the way some people do about the weather. I guess when you get old, there's not much else to talk about.
I, as a 65 yr old man, was not bothered riding in the car being driven by my 96 yr old mom. She was still a good driver, mentally alert and lived by herself 'till passing at 100, hope I am as fortunate. As for the tech issues, my SO and I have been dealing with all of the mentioned ones and others for many years. We are both retired engineers (me-electrical, she-software), so our friends and relatives have used us for tech support. We are now 71 and both should have flat foreheads by now. I do have an "Old Person Thing" that I like to do on occasion. If in line with a small purchase behind someone who is old and being slow and someone behind is obviously annoyed, when it is my turn I slowly count out the correct number of bills and then pull out my change purse and slowly count out the correct change. Then turn with a big grin to the back to release my inner a**hole.
Not my mom but one I take care of. Blowing her nose while we're eating. And blowing it in my direction. Then goes back to their finger food. Ewww. No. She also seems to think she's the only one to have ever been a nurse (I've been one) and even knows more than her current nurse. Even though she's had something communicated to her, she'll come out and say the nurses should be doing something they're already doing. Knowing I'm running out the door to do something for her and have to leave right now because she asked for it at the last minute. Then she proceeds to try to have a completely unnecessary and irrelevant conversation. Like asking if I want to make a sandwich. No. What? Why?
All the advice my mother gives me about guys is very... 70's... Mother, men are a bit more complex than they were back when all they could do is work; they're not the 'Meat and Football and Girls and Tools' cavemen you had to deal with back then. I really don't think bursting into tears every time I need something is going to force him to get it for me, I'll just get it myself and not perpetuate the stereotype of the hysterical woman who can't take care of herself.
My mother ordered a hamburger, complained to me it has no cheese. I explained that she had to order a cheeseburger then. Now if she wants a hamburg, I ask with cheese? Yes. 🤣
Yeah, I've already messed up with my daughter. 44 now with a 4 year old girl but I got in the habit of calling instructions (any kind of instructions really from recipes to construction write ups for Ikea furniture) 'destructions'...now she does it, too. I didn't realize how douche-y I sound when I say dumb things like 'destructions' or 'el cancer' until I heard the kid repeat me.
My dad does this thing where he only listens like, every other word and misses the point of the story. He’ll ask questions when you’re leading up to it lmao he’s just getting more impatient every year I suppose!
0:56 My mom has been pretty internet savvy for a decade, but she'll still occasionally call me to tell me to turn on X channel on the TV because there's something she wants me to see. We live in different states, and I haven't had cable TV since 2007. "Channel 8" is meaningless to me, Mom.
I'm a young-ish person (29) who has to hold a person's phone to see what they're showing me. It's partially because I've never used a smart phone until recently (love my flip phone!), and also because I'm farsighted. I drive a school bus, and sometimes my kids will want to show me a picture of their cat or whatever, but in their excitement they shove their phone right up in my face. Like...I can't see it if it's that close. D:
Loved my mom, she passed away just two weeks ago. This was not new, but it got worse as she aged: she only used pronouns for anyone or anything. I don't know how many times I asked, "and who would 'they' be in that sentence?" Or, "Is 'it' an animal, vegetable or thing?"
Not my parents but my in laws tear corners off of napkins and save them. They also save everything like back in the depression time. They will have a huge roll of table cloth (the kind you throw away after use) and take it off the table and save it
I'm a personal assistant and I had to explain to my 70 year old boss that I can't just change the way technology works. He occasionally asks me to Google things that won't come up with search results. Like add all these extra terms to this search and I'm like, no, that will muddle the results. I'm essentially just an expert at Googling things. All my tech knowledge is from my willingness to search for answers.
This more applies to my grandma, but its similar to the "you like tomatoes" story. I've told her my dad love my step siblings as if they were his own. Somehow, she claims i said he loves them MORE than he loves me. Even when I told her I never said that, she brushed it off like I lied to her.
For my step dad's birthday, my mom invited his friends for a party and one of them brought the mother of his wife. I tried talking to her, but she only knew Spanish. The next morning when I brought it up, she said "And she lives in this country!"
Acuerdo con ella. To be successful in any country, you have to learn their language. Went to live in Greece when I graduated highschool and figured out if I wanted a loaf of bread I better learn the language. At least so I wouldn't starve. Grew up with Spanish and English spoken everywhere so learning a new language was easy for me. Plus I wanted to learn.
One of my college professors does the text-to-type thing for everything he posts. Sometimes it's.... weird. Also, as kids, my mom would always keep plasticware, not silverware, from restaurants that we ate at. As soon as my roommate in college saw I was washing a DQ spoon, I knew that maybe it wasn't normal.
The number one gripe is older folks' helplessness with tech. I can definitetely see that - my own mother is, sadly, no exception. It's exasperating. EDIT: Actually, I'm surprised that more people haven't mentioned the FOX News thing. Thankfully, not an issue in my fam.
Every time I talk to someone online they think I’m talking to an older man ....yeah sure my Ace ass has a sugar daddy I’m totally not talking to a friend I knew since preschool
I'm 45, and I deliberately mispronounce things or deliberately use the wrong words (for example, "Internet Exploder", "AOL Instant Mangler", "Pokey-Thing" instead of Pokemon...), just for fun, and it does annoy younger people and prompts them to correct me every time, which adds a whole new layer to the fun. Me: "I guess you're poking at your pokey-things?" Young Adult Relative: "I'm PLAYING PokeMON... it's MON... POKE-MON." Me: "You don't say? Well, don't let me interrupt you while you're poking your little men." YAR: "MON! They're Pocket Monsters! MON!" Me: "Oh! OK. Pocket-things." YAR: "....! OK, Boomer! Whatever!"
Lol I am 45 and when my kid called me a boomer I called him a fetus. I also say things incorrectly on purpose but my kids know I am trying to bother them so they don't take the bait.
I got my mom AirPods for Christmas because she always uses wired earphones and has to sit down near a wall when her phone is charging, she always complains that they broke and I’m like “No mom you need to charge them”
So you solved the solution of being near the wall when the phone charges by making a new problem by introducing an extra device that needs charging. Think you played yourself.
My Mom has some sort of X-men sense for anything out of place. I can get something out to cook with, or set something aside to take with me to work, and before I finish using the cooking thing or come back to grab my stuff for work, she walks by and says, "Why is this not put away?" as if someone just casually left it there for weeks and weeks.
13:48 yes i hate that and it’s so annoying cause my mum INSISTS she holds the phone then WHENEVER i wanna hold hers for whatever reason she goes “no it’s my phone i hold it” like christ
I'm in my 60s and thought this was hilarious! To those of you who respond patiently/endearingly to your tech challenged parents-- God has some kinda special reward for you somewhere. Hope your kids are as cool as you are when you get old.
My father. When his home inkjet printer runs out of ink or paper jam he decides to purchase a new printer.😓😞Also ask what is wifi? Plus, not remembering the wifi user name and password. It's on the modem given by the cable company.
Driving with my dad. He always tries to give me directions in an area I’m familiar with and then gets mad when I don’t take his directions and go the way I know and am used to.
My mom always has to ask me how to copy and paste text messages on her phone. She also does the thing with leaving the pot of simmering water on the stove during the winter when we have several large humidifiers in the house already. She gets angry if you ask her not to do that or if you turn the stove off, even if you remind her that it lets condensation build up on the inside of the windows. Also, emailing links of "medical articles" from newsmax to her brothers, dad and me when she has a biology degree.
Grandma is watching one of her DVR recordings and will try to replay a scene that she wants to see again, then ends up restarting the whole recording from the beginning. I tell her to use the replay button and she has no clue what I mean when I’ve shown her a dozen times. She doesn’t have dementia or Alzheimer’s and she’s very smart, but it still irks me when she does that.
My dad refused to learn how to type on a computer keyboard for a loooong while. He'd just sit at the computer, open Google and tell me things like "I want to watch X movie" or "I want to play Y game". Cue me having to get up, google it for him AND click through the results until I found the good one. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Now he has a smartphone and like 80 tabs open in the Google Chrome app, some of them porn. I only discovered that when he asked me what the "You have open incognito tabs" notification was.. I wish I didn't.
My mom goes to the supermarket... and checks out EVERY SINGLE SHELF for what we could possibly need, instead of sticking to the to-buy list. We find expired items lying around the house all the time.
Well, my parents passed away when they were 97, so there's that. :) . Since I'm now "the old people," I don't do a damned thing that bothers me! :D . (My computer? We have a great relationship!)
I'm in my 40s... I built my own computers "back in my day", and I generally help the younger people to use computers because they're more used to tablets and phones. I don't own a mobile device, never use them if I can avoid it, so my mother, in her 70s, has to tell me how to use hers on the rare occasion she has me use hers....
“Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.” “Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.” “Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.” -Me when I’m old telling the account to my grandchildren for the thousandth time. Them: “We KNOW, Grampa! You tell us every time we come over!”
Slow lane changes. For the love of Medusa, it should not take a mile to fully get into the lane. Constantly driving into the other lane like a drunk and not understanding why I'm white knuckling the "oh shit handle."
My mom got a new iPhone about 5 years ago. About six months later, she began complaining that she needed to get another new phone. “The battery kept on dying.” So I took a look at it, and couldn’t figure out the problem. Then I noticed that all her apps were still running. Every app that was ever used, even for a second, was still running. So I was going to swipe out of them so they were no longer running, and my mom starts freaking out. She thought that if you swiped out of the apps, you would delete them. So I began to explain to her that I was not deleting her apps, but she interrupts with the “I am older so I know more” remark. So I just swiped out of the first couple of apps, with her yelling that I deleted her apps, and proceeded to show her that they were still there. She still was upset, so the next time she wanted me to do something on her phone, I just swiped out of all the apps. And sure enough, a week or so later she comments on how her phone magically fixed and the battery is good again. Parents are great and all, but can be so stupid and ignorant sometimes.
Omg 😱
My mum did this with her android. And had like 500 web pages open.
My mother complains all the time about how her battery dies so quickly. I found that odd, since she works a job where she can't even get ro her phone unless it's an emergency, so there was no way she was using it enough to drain thw power. I would also like to preface this with the fact that she has had a smartphone for longer than I have.
Spoiler alert: I taught her how to turn off her screen when her phone is in her pocket. My next goal is teaching her how to change the settings BACK so her phone screen will actually turn off after a few minutes instead of NEVER going into sleep mode or whatever it's called.
Please help me. Even my grandmother is not this technologically illiterate. She can at least remember how to adjust the brightness of her tablet screen or turn the orientation lock off (most of the time, if it's been a few months she sometimes needs a refresher of how to get to the settings/drop down menu to fix it).
@@kattriella1331 my mum does the exact same thing and then gets angry when she accidentaly calls someone. You just gotta try to explain it to them as nicely as you can or just snatch her phone and put the screen timeout to 30 seconds. Either she solves it or you do.
they think because they hold the title of parent that they are above all and know all...nope
This year at Christmas my grandma offered to pay $50 to anyone who could turn her printer on. All I did was plug it in and hit the power button...
i hope you collected the 50 bucks!
did you buy two minecraft accounts with it?
marie marie no haha I have a conscience
vonsmitty1313 gee thanks for the confidence in my character lmao I just told her how to do it and said not ever to pay someone in the family that much
vonsmitty1313 dang that was a missed opportunity
My mom will send me a text or leave me a voicemail asking me to call her as soon as I can because she needs to talk to me. Me being kind of panicky sometimes will immediately think, “Oh, god! Dad’s dead. My brother’s dead. One of the cats is dead!” ...No one is ever dead. It’s always something that could have easily been put in the initial text or voicemail.
Maybe she just wants to hear your voice?
My mother does this......
My mother called my work. Asks specifically for me on the phone. I talked the call.. She asked the street name of the store because i friend wanted to know it. I didn't had my phone with me, but she could asked the person who picked it up. I had to walk to the phone. When i came back, my co workers looking surprised and asked what happened because it looked like something bad happened 🤦🏻♀️
aaaww god lmfaoooo
Are you me?
I used to tell my kids to "Just Kill Me" if I started acting the way the grandparents were. Now, I'm not sure if I'm doing old people stuff, but I stay away from my windows at night unless the drapes/blinds are drawn.
Stay vigilant...
@Margaret Gust I'm pretty sure my kids took it as a joke! However.....
@@billolsen4360 lmao don't let your guard down
I’ve never liked having open blinds and curtains at night. Nope nope nope.
My mother won’t believe anything her husband and kids say. Later she’ll be told the same thing by some random person and she’ll take it to heart. Case in point she swore up and down someone’s mom recommended strawberries and sour cream. I told her that’s not right. She meant whipped cream. Cue my mother becoming progressively angrier that I must be wrong. I pull out my phone and message the my classmate, the woman’s kid and get back a verification that I’m in fact right. Mom gets louder and angrier. She then, out of spite, prepares strawberries and sour cream, beginning to spite eats them to prove me wrong. It’s like watching Sheldon Cooper when the power was out trying to goad Leonard back from Penny’s place. Mom eats two strawberries. One with cream, the second without. She then ignores the dish for the rest of the night. From then on if the topic came up she’d swear she’s still right.
I, my brother, nor my sister still talk to her and my father left her. She’s difficult, and has only gotten worse with age
Red Ram my mom has become like this because of dementia. Very challenging.
Colourwheel in my case she doesn’t have dementia. She’s always been this way.
@@redram5150 Smart move to get such negativity out of your life. It will sour you like those sweet strawberries on sour cream!
765respect I have. Cut her out a while ago. Now once or twice a year I get a bunch of emails from her, each increasing in anger and frustration, because I have no right to treat her the way I have. No apologies from her. No mention why I chose to do this. In her mind I’m completely unreasonable and cruel.
@@redram5150 I'm 50+ and my mom is in her 80's now and approaching a similar level of stubbornness. I love my mother dearly but her inability to take any form of correction whatsoever TERRIFIES me. How will I take care of someone who responds to everything I say or ask by deliberately freezing or doing some opposite action? It fillllllls me with dread :(
4:30 reminded me of something that happened when I was 3-4
Mom: eat this cereal bar
Me: no
Mom: eat it
Me: no.
Mom forces cereal bar down my throat
I proceeded to have an allergic reaction due to the peanuts in the bar, and almost died. This was before we knew about my allergy.
Mother knows best!...lolz, but seriously, glad you survived mate.
I am glad you're still breathing!
@@jasperlufkin Agreed lol
@@EoinJoyceMapping You injecting oxygen directly into your blood? or have you transcended the need to exist through lowly mortal flesh?
I'm 60, and this is why I can't stand to be around people my age.
I have an acquaintance who won't remove the auto reply from her texts, so every time I respond, I get, I'm sorry, I'm not available right now....😠
I hear you! I'm 65 and it's for stuff like this that most of my best friends are somewhat or even significantly younger than me. Lots of people around my age just make me nuts. When I was younger, most of my friends were older or younger than me.
Gene Miller I’m 20 and I appreciate older people like you guys who can get their shit together. My fiancé’s parents are in their fifties and they are completely helpless when it comes to technology and their views are outdated but they won’t take the time to learn anything new.
I hear you. I am 60 and there are members of my high school class who ar just not into 'computers.'
I’m a teenager but I’m glad older people are taking part in technological things instead of just dismissing it as they didn’t grow up with it. Just because it’s not from your generation, doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Ok millennial
They don't understand my type of videos. Every time my mom overhears me proof-reading, she thinks I'm trying to "code myself a friend". Reddit and the internet in general are foreign concepts to my parents, especially online multiplayer games.
Best TTS Readit -Thanks Subs- Oof
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@@beccasapphire3862 Oof
@@GoofiPlaysROBLOX Scandalous 😳
Don't you understand? Pause your game, dinner is ready!
Grocery shopping, I tell my wife, stay in the car-me and the daughter can do this in 10-15 minutes. She insists on coming in. We have it done in the projected time and she has not yet gone down one aisle. Left to her own devices, she would take two hours. We are in our 60s, and she whines because we don't want to take her anywhere. There's a great reason for it. Shopping is not so fricking riveting one wants to spend the whole day at it.
try the pre-order option if available. i'm primarily a shut-in and i absolutely love it. i can do all my shopping in 30 minutes and then just have someone pick it up for me. to do that amount of shopping every month would take nearly the whole month for me as i cannot walk very long at all, not long enough to get around a whole big store.
@@mariemarie7829 A very worth while suggestion-thanks!
Maybe she bored at home just likes shopping/talking to someone else for a change. Turn her loose in the store and go have a beer.
I look at shopping as a social and low impact exercise opportunity. I always run into ppl I know and have a quick catch up and walking around pushing something gets me moving, something I don't do enough of sitting around the house.
@@vilstef6988 if anything try things like postmates or other apps like that
-Dad " how do i add this number as a contact???"
-Me "press that thing that says add to contacts"
happens once a week or so.
Also only takes calls on speaker phone..
These had me laughing out loud, annoying the heck out of my silly small dog who was trying to sleep.
Sadly for me, I AM old...73, in fact. I swore to myself I never would get this way, but sure enough, everything about me has slowed down-brain, body, grocery shopping, remembering names, learning new information, etc. And hard as it is to believe, it will happen to almost everyone, if you live long enough.
Some things older people can’t help, due to physical problems or brain deterioration. But a lot described here is just due to plain old arrogance and stubbornness. I suspect many of these people were lacking kindness, good manners, and humility even in their youth. They just no longer control themselves as well as they may have when they felt they had more to lose. Hopefully they will develop some gratitude before they lose those people who are most important in their lives, their kids.
Slowing down is understandable. If an old person is walking too slowly in front of me, I understand and will be patient. If I have to teach an older person something 2 or 3 times, I understand and will teach you 2 or 3 times. What I won't understand are stupid old people who stop in front of doors as soon as they walk through and block everyone or old people who outright refuse to learn, using the excuse that they're too old to learn.
People need to learn the difference between someone declining physically/mentally, and stupid old people who used to be stupid young people.
One thing I ADORE about elder people is how you write. Maybe it's just a select few, but the perfect mix of storytelling and life lessons mixed in just keeps me mesmerized. I wish you well.
On the converse side, I work in a hospital usually full of old sick people. I see octogenarians using up to date tech that even I am not up to date with. So they can do it, I think some older folk get lazy brains.
Yeah the old giving a paper resume/CV into the job thing my dad does.
My dad told me that shit. But he didnt even do that, he walked into a recruiters office. He refused to believe job applications where done online
Oh god my stepmom told me that in 2008. I work in IT and nobody was taking paper resumes from random people. She would not believe that things have changed since she was an HR manager. She’d been retired for a decade. 🤦🏼♀️
They act like because they wiped my butt 20 years ago that I don't know what I'm doing. Are you sure this is how you fix the car, are you sure this is the best way to fix the plumbing. Like I do this for a living you are a store owner I am a matinance worker i don't tell you how to run a store you don't tell me how to fix. The water
Heh. I’m over 50 and get the same thing.
Loudly complaint (in public) about things like politics, lgbtq+ stuff, how annoying kids are, you know. We came back from vacation yesterday and she kept complaining about the countries in front of the taxi drivers.
Oh and having a seemingly friendly conversation with someone and 15 seconds after they leave it’s all “she was so.....” “he can’t....”
2:19
She might be using the speakerphone because the earpiece speaker may not be loud enough for her ears.
I knew an old man that had hearing problems.
He eventually found the speakerphone function on his cell phone, and started using that to make it easier for him to hear (while still holding the phone to his ear). He thought that was a volume boosting function for people that had hearing problems, and I tried to tell him no, that is just the speakerphone function that all cell phones have, and its primary purpose is for hands free talking, not a volume booster for the hard of hearing.
5:00 my older brother ( who is only in his early 20's mind you ) will fall asleep in front of the TV and when you try to change it he wakes up, tells you off, and goes back to sleep
Edit: 16:03 I'm not even in my 20's yet and I do this...
@alyisdead that sounds so much worse than my brother lol
My parents still haven’t figured out that the new Roomba I got them for Xmas can be scheduled. They come home from work every day and thank me for vacuuming with the Roomba.
You’re welcome. 🙂
Why don't they learn even after showing how it's done several times? It's like they simply refuse to learn.
No, it's just their brain slowing down. Frustrating, I know but it happens to lots of people when they get old.
alleycatalog no they’re being arrogant and stubborn af
I mean I also have trouble understanding stuff I need to understand. But at least I say, look, I don't understand this stuff, please explain it to me.
We get slower at learning as we get older. You'll find out.
@@OpusBuddly Yeah slower I understand. But outright refusing and arrogant?
My grandparents were shocked when they saw me using my laptop (with my phone as a WiFi point) at their house. They complained that now they were going to get charged for internet (which they do not have).
Oh i have a very weird one:
My grandparents, (nana 62) (papa 63)
(My mom is 40)
Now, they STILL call each other mama and deddy. (This is a daily convo)
“Deddy, whatcha want for dinner?”
“Uhhhh i dont know mama, call and see if genes are open”
(Nana also holds her phone (charging end) almost against her mouth, and she has EVERY call on speaker)
When they refuse to learn their own phone and just proceed to push a bunch of buttons. My mother does that, it drives me up the wall.
My father went to the cable office to inform them he would be receiving his email in Florida for the next few months.
Every time someone deletes the win32 file I personally think that an angel from the IT profession dies.
I used to get really annoyed with my dad for always calling me by my sister’s name and calling my sister by my name, but now that I have 2 kids and a dog I kind of get it because I do the same things some days. I’ve even asked my boyfriend for “mama kisses” before which is what I say to my kids when asking for a kids.
I think my biggest genuine annoyance with my parents is when they get mad at me for asking for help with my kids. My boyfriend is gone for weeks at a time with his job and when I ask for help when I’m at the end of my rope I am usually told that I can handle it because they did. Even when my parents were single parents they still had close family to help support them. Annoys the crap out of me.
Anyone visiting our house when I was a kid probably thought there was another boy there named "TomMikeGARY!" Lol!
Typical ingratitude from the boomer generation. They don't acknowledge the help they received because they felt entitled and were not grateful for the help they received. Since they won't acknowledge the help they received, they truly think they did it all by themselves.
Haha, my grandmother had the same name issues with us kids. Now I do, even adding the cats and dogs names to the mix. Have called the granddaughters by their father's name. Have ended up calling their papaw their daddy.
I'm so sorry your parents don't want to help. I wonder why. At some time maybe you should guilt them and point out the help they had. But your kids will feel the possible disdain and reluctance for them while babysat. My mil did not like my sons and they felt it. They were very energetic, willful and the wrong color. Fine, I didn't need her help anyway bc by the time I moved here they were 12, 8 and 4.
I'm an independent minded boomer and since I was in the military for 21 yrs, I was not near family. Had to depend on childminders, babysitters to help with the kids. They were very reluctant to watch the kids on the weekends. I am fully aware of how difficult it is to raise kids on your own and without the help of relatives. So I whole heartedly will take over when asked. Had to keep one granddaughter for 2 full yrs when her mother went to jail, now have her intermittenly. Second grandie had to stay with us when her mother recouped in hospital from mental illness. We still babysit her overnight for 2 days a week. She is such a joy. I consider the grandies a great pleasure and love that they are safe with us. My sons are so grateful and will do anything I ask whenever I need them to. I don't ask them for much, just a few odds and ends bc I'm not tall or strong enough to do somethings. I don't ask for money bc I have more than I need. My husband has always been jealous of any kids bc they take away time from me for him, sigh. But his mother forced him to take care of all the children she bore while she went to church and did churchladies hair.
I feel that when I need help as an elderly person, the boys and their kids will be there for me.
Who else loves to just binge these videos?
I have insomnia and I enjoy ghost stories, I binge the "what's the scariest supernatural thing" videos late at night until I can fall asleep. I live for the moments when the robo-voice mentions "Teal Doctor" (TL;DR). Robovoice: "[insert long, rambling ghost story full of hilariously mispronounced words here]. Teal Doctor: it was dark and scary, at twelve. Zero. Zero. At night. And then a skeleton popped out."
I used to care about politics, but then I discovered these ask/Reddit videos.
@@pietrayday9915 I guess that I can kind of see the humor of these TTS programs inability to properly pronounce words and overall sound unnatural and inhuman. But, to me it gets a little grating, like so very few uploaders actually care to edit, correct or proof-read these videos so they can sound more palatable.
yeah, me too!
@@Sunset553 haha same here! I binge watch these to forget about politics. It just makes me angry
My wife installed 15 toolbars on her browser. The usable screen was reduced to about 3 lines of text. When I went to remove them, she complained that she used them all. Every. single. one of them.
And maybe it's just me, or just the people I know. But I became a truck driver. Drove 375,000 miles with no accidents. But everyone I know insists I'm a bad driver because I crashed the car twice back when I was 17, and the speeding ticket I got when I was 21.
I was over 40, so these were not recent events. I'm over 50, and people still make snide comments about my driving ability, even while insisting I do all the driving.
11:12 I’m imagining the Scooby Doo laugh
The thing with calling everyone’s name before OP’s? I don’t know if it’s parenthood or silvering, but everyone with more than one offspring can probably relate. My Nana did it. Only my father there, but she still called his five siblings before him. I started doing it after only my second child, but I included the dogs.
Sweet Little Weasel yep, my son comes to visit and I call him by my dog’s name. He’s never complained, maybe because the dog’s name is Rambo, and my son is a muscle-builder gym junkie!
I refuse to drive my mom anywhere, I've driven her somewhere maybe twice since "the incident" where she frantically shouted at me to turn right and then shouted at me that I had missed the turn three times before I pointed right and shouted WHERE? And she suddenly admitted she had meant left the whole time, but it was still my fault. When she gets old enough that her driving scares me, I'll have to drive her again, and she'll shout about the car half a mile down the road that's going to hit us, when she's the type to make left hand turns right in front of oncoming traffic.
Don't feel bad. You are not the only one trust me. My dad is the same way when I drive. Literally nothing can be done to satisfy him when he is in the passenger seat.
Im 33 by the way and have been driving since 15 when I got my permit so it's not like I am a new driver. He will yell at me to the point that I can barely focus. I have got out of the driver seat at a stop light and left him sitting in the middle of the road because I felt like I was having a heart attack.
It really depends on his mood and not so much my driving which is super frustrating.
I know it's not really my driving because none of my other family members have anything to say about how I drive including my mom.
I didn't mean to go on so long but this is a particularly aggravating part of my life. Lol
telling my father to not turn left yet, getting cursed at, and watched the tractor trailer's headlights coming at us that nearly killed me. i carried a CDL. felt sorry for the trucker.
Driving my dad is intensely stressful. He cannot speak, he just watches the road ahead for potential hazards, and tells me “woman with pram” or “truck pulling out of side road” . As though I will plough into pedestrians by the road. When we go round a corner he holds on like I’m going round it at 100mph and the g force will unseat him. I drive a tiny one litre car, and drive painfully slowly, well under speed limit, no overtaking, and just pull over if anyone wants to get past me, and I always have. But for some reason he thinks I’m driving a Porsche off road in a death race.
@@benbrice9343 I would just tell him if he can't shut up to get the frick out and walk.
@@deborahyoung1873 Oh I have and I still feel terrible about it.
My mom leaves tje heat on too long even when it's like 80 in our house. She's nearly 50 and has reached thr Old Person Chills stage
My MIL must have continuous menopause/hot flashes because her house is always freezing. One year at Christmas me, her kids, and the grandkids all got blankets as gifts because we’re always so cold.
Wow, she's early dude.
That reminds me of my grandma:
-She doesn't know how to turn her iPhone on
-She randomly switch the night and day mode on Adobe Reader on her tablet while reading
-She calls the WhatsApp Facebook and vice-versa
-She also doesn't know how to change channels on the new TV
-She also struggles with the unfreeze options on the microwave, she says that "it changes the taste of the meat", it doesn't
-If I spend too much time on my cellphone or in a computer she complains that "I don't know what is so interesting on this thing that keep you looking at it for so long" yet she reads lots of books on PDFs on her tablet for hours (¯―¯٥)
And I could stay aaaall day talking about these things my grandma does, but I'm lazy and I'm tired now
The thing that annoys me is no one knows how a computer works until we try different things and learn to do it of our own back. It’s not some thing just all people younger than them are born knowing. If you don’t try then you don’t learn simple.
@High Shaun no, she just doesn't really want to learn, we try to teach her but she doesn't want to learn how somethings works, alway with the excuse of "I'm 79 years old, I'm too old for this", she's really stubborn =/
My dad once woke me up at 3 in the morning with a spare tire and told me to go change the car's tire even though it was perfectly fine...
That's some epic-level sleep walking.
Good Lord, watching this video made me realize that I am an old person! How do you turn this stupid thing off?
What stupid thing? What does "off" mean? Who are you anyway? I'm sure we've never met, so why are you writing to me?
@@Skraeling1000 😂😂😂
I'm 32 but I do that thing where when I hear somebody open the refrigerator I announce what's in it for them haha. I don't know, I just keep thinking that they won't notice if there's something behind something else. I want them to have full knowledge of what's in the fridge 😹
My mum has 2 bank accounts and still gets on the bus for 45 minutes to go to the nearest bank to get money out of one account and put it in the other, she doesn't believe in online banking
Your mum is lowkey smart
High Shaun actually no my dad never used his card online and still got money stolen
High Shaun also keeping an eye out for false transactions and reporting them on time helps you in the long run
lol!
hello from the future. That is actually becoming a wise thing to do now, with scammers actually being now able to hack online banking and even hijack banks' actual phone numbers. A woman recently here in Australia lost $36000 to a scam, while using the banks genuine number!
My mother has a thing where she calls any electronic of mine (ipad, iphone, imac, we are an Apple fam) my ipad. Just constantly “oh why did you leave your ipad on?” (Ipad is in her hands) “???” “Youre umm ipad. Youre ipad. Tablet? Iphone, there”. Just constantly like that lmao
Also, for the EU part, Dad will be right in two weeks.
My parents: “Oh, it’s 5pm? Wow. Getting late. Time for dinner.”
What is wrong with 5 pm dinner?
I'm in my 30's and I've always considered 5pm dinnertime.
My mum makes me dinner at 4pm (and we used to have it at 5pm)
I'm 60 and want dinner after 9. Pisses my husband the f*ck off. Son came over at 10 last month to me making dinner. He laughs and says "Some things never change!".
Thats always been the most annoying one lmao.. (Finishes cooking something.. Ohh hey a tasty hot meal.. The fact it is fresh off the stove or out of the microwave is a great flavor in its self.. Im gonna go sit over there and watch something while I enjoy this Freshly HOT out of the microwave or off the stove...)
2 minutes later.........
*Parent figure* "Why is there a dirty pan here? You need to clean up before you eat!!!!!" (Also parents at family get togeathers.....)
"Come on sit down while the foods hot!! HEY *little random kid in the family somewhere else* YOUR FOOD IS GETTING COLD!!!! OMFG COME OVER HERE AND EAT BEFORE IT GETS COLD!!!!!!"
My grandmother was tech illiterate.
We had a TV set up for her with a VCR connected, so she could watch shows that were recorded on tape.
On the TV, we told her to only touch the power and volume buttons (and we had tape covering channel buttons, to indicate that she should not touch those).
She would often tell me something was wrong with the TV, and the problem was that the channel was always changed. I told her that she caused the problem by touching the buttons that were covered with tape, and she outright insisted (every single time) that she did not touch those buttons.
I took the tape off, and taped a hard plastic cover from a small container over the channel buttons. Ever since I put that cover on, she never had that problem again.
TBH, most of the people I've encountered using their phone on speaking in public have been under 35.
My mother loves taking pictures of family, especially the grandkids, but refuses to learn how to use a digital camera. For about twenty years, she bought those old Kodak disposable cameras by the dozen. When Wal-Mart and Walgreens started phasing them out, she'd tell everyone who would listen how unbelievable it was. I bought her an incredibly simple digital camera and tried to show her how to use it, but she instantly gave up. And forget about getting her an iphone/Android of any kind. That would be on par with translating Egyptian hieroglyphics. Now, at family gatherings, she simply tells us, "Make sure to take pictures," then pesters us for weeks after for copies . . . printed ones, of course.
I was born in '98 and my mom taught me to type. She said that after periods you needed to put two spaces. I later found out that nobody actually does this and it comes from the days of type writers.
Same with indenting paragraphs. I still do that.
Yeah, it's funny that nobody does this anymore but the fact remains that no authority figure in etiquette or wherever such decisions are made and put into practice has ever said, "It is now perfectly fine to only put one space after a period." This reminded me of a story a few years back when the oldest millenials were just teenagers and were struggling deeply with grammar, diction and proper spelling. The powers that be were bouncing around the notion that the aforementioned generation just wasn't smart enough for correct grammar and that it might be acceptable to implement a phonetic spelling system. Jesus...get a fuckin' dictionary.
I do the two spaces after a period thing because that is funnily enough that was what my mum taught me also. It just seems to be the more natural thing for me, and the spacing looks better too.
My parents started using the internet about twenty years ago. They have a tiny piece of card with passwords written on. Over the years they have lost and changed passwords, now it’s impossible to tell which password relates to which thing. Apple, google, email, online shopping etc. after twenty years of suggesting they get a VERY LARGE piece of paper and write out the passwords, and if it’s case sensitive make that clear. at Christmas I realised they got connected twenty years ago and I’ve been doing password resets for twenty years, and they still use this tiny piece of card. Both retired, both intelligent.
My family just referred to my gaming consoles as "your game" with the understood context being that they were referring to whatever was my newest one unless otherwise specified. They never tried to embarrass themselves by thinking they knew anything about it.
My mums boyfriends in his 50s and all he does is breathe so damn heavy like he just finished a marathon
Thats just being horribly unfit, not old.
My mom types with one finger and then has to stop and stand in place to type. She also has her ringtone at full all the time unless she's in court. She also still can't understand how to use the back button on a phone or tries to find a coupon in her email but doesn't use the search bar while insisting on scrolling for about five minutes instead. My uncle also thought chipotle was called chip-oh-lee.
Not my parents, but my maternal grandparents are basically absolutely refusing to plan for their future. They havent given anyone power of attorney, and my grandfather has parkinsons and my grandmas memory is going. They live out in the country and only told us they dont want to consider 55 and up housing AFTER we took them to visit prospective housing. Something bad will happen, and they wont be able to cope, and it will be on us to pick up the slack at great cost to ourselves. And if you think they are happy for our help well... they are almost shut ins and have lost most of their social awareness.
3:00 This is why I once labeled the computer, the modem, and the router for someone so they would know which is which.
My mom has her phone for about 3 years now and she still doesn't know how to add someone's number to her contacts.
She also insists that I take pictures of her because selfies aren't the same thing.
She also doesn't read the labels of the products she want at the supermarket.
My dad rants about the TV having nothing interesting while zapping all the channels in a row.
He also doesn't answer you if you call him, but gets mad if he calls you and you don't answer.
Well, there is a difference between selfies and someone taking pics of you. Selfie pics are too bulbous or angular or something. Not complementary.
My dad's computer is out of WiFi range, so you have to connect it to a booster. Every day my dad turns on the pc and gets angrier and angrier that the WiFi isn't working. I show him how to connect to the booster. Magically, the computer works. Next day, same thing. After a week of this he insists on calling in 'his man' to fix the computer, which costs him a ridiculous amount of money. This has been going on for about a year and I don't want to think about how much he's spending.
I repair cash registers.
When I have a cash register clearly disassembled, it is more often the older people that do not realize that:
1. The register is not open (to shoppers), and cannot be used.
2. I am not a store employee, and I am not the person they should be coming to.
3. If a person is doing work at a store, that does not automatically mean they are an employee of that store.
Nothing:
Parents: Must be because of that damn Xbox.
8:50 - That's my wife!!!! She's the most technically illiterate person I've ever met, but got interested in the internet when her friend discovered chat rooms (1990s). She would come home from her friend's house and ask me about how some computer software worked. Note: I BUILT the computer she was using and juggled all of the incompatible 'dialers' her various on-line programs used so they wouldn't conflict (techy people from the 90s are wincing and rolling their eyes right now), not to mention that I was making a living as a computer network technician at the time. After I finished explaning, she'd tell me that I'm wrong. Then about a week later, she'd come home from her friend's and say "Did you know that this works such and such a way?", and what she told me was the same thing I told her a week before, but because her friend told her, she would believe it. This became almost a weekly occurrence. Finally I told her that if she asked me a computer question and then told me I was wrong, the conversation was over. After a couple more incidents I just started telling her "Go ask Phyllis, you won't believe me."
Every sound my phone makes is a phone call. Whether it's a call, text or an alarm.
"Hudaef, someone's calling."
"Mom, it's just a text."
"Hudaef, someone's calling again."
"It's an alarm Mom. For the show I wanted to watch."🤦♂️
10:48
My grandmother would do that.
We had a ***LOT*** of plastic cutlery, but she would still keep washing it.
My dad is 64. I wake up at 7am on a sunday as the sound system blasts out whatever movie hes watching. He has done this for the last 15 years at least. Not an age thing, just dad flaunting how early he got up I guess. I keep getting shit for waking up at 9 for being lazy, and otherwise if I make noise.
He would hate me. I'm 60 and will not get out of bed till noon.
My grandmother is 66 im pretty sure.
I grew up playing old pc games and N64 titles like zelda with her.
She needs help with things but shes easily more comfortable with a computer then the vast majority of "support" i have ever spoken to.
Im lucky.
Mom and dad constantly bring up the current state of their bowels as small talk, the way some people do about the weather. I guess when you get old, there's not much else to talk about.
I, as a 65 yr old man, was not bothered riding in the car being driven by my 96 yr old mom. She was still a good driver, mentally alert and lived by herself 'till passing at 100, hope I am as fortunate. As for the tech issues, my SO and I have been dealing with all of the mentioned ones and others for many years. We are both retired engineers (me-electrical, she-software), so our friends and relatives have used us for tech support. We are now 71 and both should have flat foreheads by now. I do have an "Old Person Thing" that I like to do on occasion. If in line with a small purchase behind someone who is old and being slow and someone behind is obviously annoyed, when it is my turn I slowly count out the correct number of bills and then pull out my change purse and slowly count out the correct change. Then turn with a big grin to the back to release my inner a**hole.
Not my mom but one I take care of. Blowing her nose while we're eating. And blowing it in my direction. Then goes back to their finger food. Ewww. No.
She also seems to think she's the only one to have ever been a nurse (I've been one) and even knows more than her current nurse. Even though she's had something communicated to her, she'll come out and say the nurses should be doing something they're already doing.
Knowing I'm running out the door to do something for her and have to leave right now because she asked for it at the last minute. Then she proceeds to try to have a completely unnecessary and irrelevant conversation. Like asking if I want to make a sandwich. No. What? Why?
All the advice my mother gives me about guys is very... 70's... Mother, men are a bit more complex than they were back when all they could do is work; they're not the 'Meat and Football and Girls and Tools' cavemen you had to deal with back then. I really don't think bursting into tears every time I need something is going to force him to get it for me, I'll just get it myself and not perpetuate the stereotype of the hysterical woman who can't take care of herself.
Urgh, this is so my mum: 'You need to find yourself a rich man to look after you,' slight problem there, mum, I'm gay, so...
My mom was always trying to get me to be a golddigger like her, no thanks mom.
My mother ordered a hamburger, complained to me it has no cheese. I explained that she had to order a cheeseburger then. Now if she wants a hamburg, I ask with cheese? Yes. 🤣
My dad has 2 Facebook accounts. One for his phone and one for the desktop at their home.
That's hilarious!
Yeah, I've already messed up with my daughter. 44 now with a 4 year old girl but I got in the habit of calling instructions (any kind of instructions really from recipes to construction write ups for Ikea furniture) 'destructions'...now she does it, too. I didn't realize how douche-y I sound when I say dumb things like 'destructions' or 'el cancer' until I heard the kid repeat me.
My husband does the same thing. I hate it.
My dad does this thing where he only listens like, every other word and misses the point of the story. He’ll ask questions when you’re leading up to it lmao he’s just getting more impatient every year I suppose!
0:56 My mom has been pretty internet savvy for a decade, but she'll still occasionally call me to tell me to turn on X channel on the TV because there's something she wants me to see. We live in different states, and I haven't had cable TV since 2007. "Channel 8" is meaningless to me, Mom.
I'm a young-ish person (29) who has to hold a person's phone to see what they're showing me. It's partially because I've never used a smart phone until recently (love my flip phone!), and also because I'm farsighted. I drive a school bus, and sometimes my kids will want to show me a picture of their cat or whatever, but in their excitement they shove their phone right up in my face. Like...I can't see it if it's that close. D:
Loved my mom, she passed away just two weeks ago. This was not new, but it got worse as she aged: she only used pronouns for anyone or anything. I don't know how many times I asked, "and who would 'they' be in that sentence?" Or, "Is 'it' an animal, vegetable or thing?"
Not my parents but my in laws tear corners off of napkins and save them. They also save everything like back in the depression time. They will have a huge roll of table cloth (the kind you throw away after use) and take it off the table and save it
I'm a personal assistant and I had to explain to my 70 year old boss that I can't just change the way technology works. He occasionally asks me to Google things that won't come up with search results. Like add all these extra terms to this search and I'm like, no, that will muddle the results. I'm essentially just an expert at Googling things. All my tech knowledge is from my willingness to search for answers.
This more applies to my grandma, but its similar to the "you like tomatoes" story. I've told her my dad love my step siblings as if they were his own. Somehow, she claims i said he loves them MORE than he loves me. Even when I told her I never said that, she brushed it off like I lied to her.
Text photographs of there senior dog repeatedly
when you try to show your parents a photo and they just start swiping.......
For my step dad's birthday, my mom invited his friends for a party and one of them brought the mother of his wife. I tried talking to her, but she only knew Spanish. The next morning when I brought it up, she said "And she lives in this country!"
Acuerdo con ella. To be successful in any country, you have to learn their language. Went to live in Greece when I graduated highschool and figured out if I wanted a loaf of bread I better learn the language. At least so I wouldn't starve. Grew up with Spanish and English spoken everywhere so learning a new language was easy for me. Plus I wanted to learn.
One of my college professors does the text-to-type thing for everything he posts. Sometimes it's.... weird. Also, as kids, my mom would always keep plasticware, not silverware, from restaurants that we ate at. As soon as my roommate in college saw I was washing a DQ spoon, I knew that maybe it wasn't normal.
The number one gripe is older folks' helplessness with tech. I can definitetely see that - my own mother is, sadly, no exception. It's exasperating.
EDIT: Actually, I'm surprised that more people haven't mentioned the FOX News thing. Thankfully, not an issue in my fam.
I'm 55 and 90% of the people my age have no idea how shit works. Unless they were geeks in the 70's and 80's. Otherwise, they are just lost.
The funny thing about this is in 30 years the same geniuses will be in the same situation.
Every time I talk to someone online they think I’m talking to an older man ....yeah sure my Ace ass has a sugar daddy I’m totally not talking to a friend I knew since preschool
10:10 I can feel this one.
I'm 45, and I deliberately mispronounce things or deliberately use the wrong words (for example, "Internet Exploder", "AOL Instant Mangler", "Pokey-Thing" instead of Pokemon...), just for fun, and it does annoy younger people and prompts them to correct me every time, which adds a whole new layer to the fun.
Me: "I guess you're poking at your pokey-things?"
Young Adult Relative: "I'm PLAYING PokeMON... it's MON... POKE-MON."
Me: "You don't say? Well, don't let me interrupt you while you're poking your little men."
YAR: "MON! They're Pocket Monsters! MON!"
Me: "Oh! OK. Pocket-things."
YAR: "....! OK, Boomer! Whatever!"
No one corrects me when I say SPRAWL MART, but I'll wait for grandchildren to arrive.
@@billolsen4360 Oh, I like like that one! It is very fitting!!
Lol I am 45 and when my kid called me a boomer I called him a fetus. I also say things incorrectly on purpose but my kids know I am trying to bother them so they don't take the bait.
@@alleycatalog Good 4 you!
Ooo, exploder sounds nice, I will use that. I play pokeyman go myself.
I got my mom AirPods for Christmas because she always uses wired earphones and has to sit down near a wall when her phone is charging, she always complains that they broke and I’m like “No mom you need to charge them”
So you solved the solution of being near the wall when the phone charges by making a new problem by introducing an extra device that needs charging. Think you played yourself.
My Mom has some sort of X-men sense for anything out of place. I can get something out to cook with, or set something aside to take with me to work, and before I finish using the cooking thing or come back to grab my stuff for work, she walks by and says, "Why is this not put away?" as if someone just casually left it there for weeks and weeks.
13:48 yes i hate that and it’s so annoying cause my mum INSISTS she holds the phone then WHENEVER i wanna hold hers for whatever reason she goes “no it’s my phone i hold it” like christ
2:18 thats my mom except add FaceTime. she says it makes it easier for her to hear..
I'm in my 60s and thought this was hilarious! To those of you who respond patiently/endearingly to your tech challenged parents-- God has some kinda special reward for you somewhere. Hope your kids are as cool as you are when you get old.
My father. When his home inkjet printer runs out of ink or paper jam he decides to purchase a new printer.😓😞Also ask what is wifi? Plus, not remembering the wifi user name and password. It's on the modem given by the cable company.
Driving with my dad. He always tries to give me directions in an area I’m familiar with and then gets mad when I don’t take his directions and go the way I know and am used to.
My mom always has to ask me how to copy and paste text messages on her phone. She also does the thing with leaving the pot of simmering water on the stove during the winter when we have several large humidifiers in the house already. She gets angry if you ask her not to do that or if you turn the stove off, even if you remind her that it lets condensation build up on the inside of the windows. Also, emailing links of "medical articles" from newsmax to her brothers, dad and me when she has a biology degree.
Grandma is watching one of her DVR recordings and will try to replay a scene that she wants to see again, then ends up restarting the whole recording from the beginning. I tell her to use the replay button and she has no clue what I mean when I’ve shown her a dozen times. She doesn’t have dementia or Alzheimer’s and she’s very smart, but it still irks me when she does that.
My dad refused to learn how to type on a computer keyboard for a loooong while. He'd just sit at the computer, open Google and tell me things like "I want to watch X movie" or "I want to play Y game". Cue me having to get up, google it for him AND click through the results until I found the good one. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Now he has a smartphone and like 80 tabs open in the Google Chrome app, some of them porn. I only discovered that when he asked me what the "You have open incognito tabs" notification was.. I wish I didn't.
My mom goes to the supermarket... and checks out EVERY SINGLE SHELF for what we could possibly need, instead of sticking to the to-buy list. We find expired items lying around the house all the time.
It's 4am and I am CRYING laughing 😂😂 this video made me less annoyed with my mom 😂
Well, my parents passed away when they were 97, so there's that. :) . Since I'm now "the old people," I don't do a damned thing that bothers me! :D . (My computer? We have a great relationship!)
I'm in my 40s... I built my own computers "back in my day", and I generally help the younger people to use computers because they're more used to tablets and phones. I don't own a mobile device, never use them if I can avoid it, so my mother, in her 70s, has to tell me how to use hers on the rare occasion she has me use hers....
“Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.”
“Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.”
“Stuart Little (mouse at the end) was one of my favorite books as a kid. Michael J. Fox did a bang up job as his voice actor.” -Me when I’m old telling the account to my grandchildren for the thousandth time.
Them: “We KNOW, Grampa! You tell us every time we come over!”
I'm so glad both my parents worked in IT while I grew up.
9:31 I do this too but I always correct my texts
Slow lane changes. For the love of Medusa, it should not take a mile to fully get into the lane.
Constantly driving into the other lane like a drunk and not understanding why I'm white knuckling the "oh shit handle."
That last one is how my mom always acts when I drive her around lol
I thought I was the only one who called it the "oh shit handle".
My sister washes her disposable utensils drives me nuts esp when she has me clean the kitchen and I find them in the sink I threw them away!
Every single one of these describes my parents. Every. Single. One.