Involuntary Parental Tech Support | Jarlath Regan | Standup Comedy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2023
- Nobody asks to be their parents' tech support or IT helpdesk. Irish comedian Jarlath Regan explains how he wound up in this role, how testing the job is and how we will all need one to do the same for us some day.
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I had to do this for my mum in the mid-90s. Couldnt figure out the VCR. I even made a cheat sheet, and drew squares around the keys that she needed to press. Still got the phone calls. My chemistry exams werent as important as finding out the killer on Murder, She Wrote.
Amazing. I love it.
My mom loved Jessica from Cabot Cove!
Love you Jar!World needs the laughs
The aul lad keeps retuning/deleting all the channels on his TV by accident. I made a diagram which is stuck on the press. No good. I ductaped around the remote so the buttons he needed to press were the only ones showing. Still managed to retune it (actually quite an achievement). “Son, they’re all gone again” Last attempt, I put the child lock on it so you need a PIN to do anything other than channel up down or volume. And… finally… success :). All this to watch Heartbeat.
I went “home” to my parents after a few years after they moved away. It became a regular thing. 20 years on... my connecting flight got delayed. So I volunteered my seat for the next flight. They were offering 300$ Canadian (about 1/2 the cost of my flight) to do so. The next flight came and had the opposite routing to mine. But. They put me on it. Took me to a city I’d never been to. And left me there. As the plane was full going forward. So I was put on the next flight from there. Back to the first city. Then on to my parent’s city.
I gimpy there in the end. About 6 hours later at 3 am my start time, 1 am local to Kamloops BC. Bone tired.
Now. Here is where the story really begins. Dad drove out twice to meet me. Once when I should’ve arrived. (And I did call home to let them know, but he’d left to pick me up already).
I was so glad to see him when he met me at the tiny Kamloops airport.
Bone tired, he drove me home. 3 happy folks. And then. It happened.
His wallet was missing.
His big. Thick wallet. Full of money and ID. I worried for pick pockets. But the airport is tiny. Not the normal scene of such a crime.
He drove me out to the tiny airport. Dad’s 3rd trip there that day. All the way across town.
The security guard wasn’t keen on letting us in. But we were harmless folks. Dad was a senior citizen. I was clean enough cut.
And we searched. I asked Dad where he’d been. Turns out, he’d waited in a chair in the departure lounge. There was only 1 gate...
We went there and I searched the floor.
No dice. He hadn’t gone in the restaurant. Nor the tiny store.
So. It was gone.
We went home. Dejected at Christmas time. With the weight of all the ID we’d need to replace hanging over our heads. Me, and likely him now, bone tired.
We got home. And... I checked his chair at home. Jammed in it, was a huge, thick wallet! Full of money and ID!!!
A Canadian Christmas miracle!
Parental support. We do what we gotta do.
For Christmas list items, my father in law loves to send a screen capture of an Amazon item dropped into a word document that is then attached to an email.
The screen capture always includes the icon for "share link."
I love my in laws so much ❤😂
No wonder you’re funny. Your Da is a class 1 problem solver. I love that! ❤
My dad called me to complain he couldn’t find the “quivering oblong.” Finally realized he meant the cursor. He also saved blank pages so he could use them when needed! I didn’t have the heart to tell him.
@tobirates916 😄 your Dad! His naming of the cursor was very inventive. Not dissimilar to when a primitive tribe comes up with words, in their own language, for a plane, helicopter, camera, laptop, iPod etc
The amount of hours i've spent looking at my parents type with TWO FINGERS at the speed of half a turtle because "I WANT TO DO IT SO I LEARN" - while never learning what we're doing.
These are people who googled google to get to google.
@Twiggalot 😄💻 🐢 Actually, the Two-Finger types can in time reach a fair old speed. It's like watching someone with an old style peg-leg run, but still .... 🏁
With my dad it was using the microwave- I remember a call when I was on ths bus going to work as to how long to cook a potato- well dad that depends on the size of the potato ggoing on for at least 5 minutes