How I look explaining anything computer wise to my grandma.

iGiveWomenOrgasms_jk · 29 days

it'd probably be more like "Grandma, double click that big blue lower-case e".. because let's be honest. Our grandma's probably don't have any other browsers haha

tehmikey · 29 days

In her defense, everything was working fine until you installed that chrome thing.

some_random_noob · 29 days

i feel the same way talking to everyone but my dad and my youngest brother about computers. nothing like telling my grandpa "just open a new tab, hit the plus sign at the top of the screen" and he hits the X closing out the window and then tells me the internet went out.

Mystharia · 29 days

Am I the only one with a tech-savvy, open-minded, Obama-supporting grandmother (who will turn 80 in a few months)?

Bruce_Bruce · 29 days

This is pretty much my mom. Whenever she encounters a problem I tell her not to touch/click on anything else until I get there. Then fix the problem from there.

Bridgemaster11 · 29 days

Dear god, my grandma emailed this to me this morning... granny is that you?

Metallivane · 29 days

My mom tells me that the whole computer is broken when she types in the wrong password to her email.

PapaPasta · 29 days

At least you only talk to Grandma once a year! That's me ALL day at work.

Arageorge · 29 days

I work tech support, I get a lot of calls about black screens on tvs when their cable box is on, from there I have to explain that their tv must be on for them to be able to watch tv.

Popo5525 · 29 days

"Chrome icon? I don't see no damn icon with chrome on it!"

ryph · 29 days

...and once she manages to open chrome, she will be double-clicking links for the rest of her life.

bananamunchies · 29 days

"BUT SONNY I DONT SEE ANY SHINY ICONS"

jswiftydowell · 29 days

Is this RockTard from the shaytards?

eloiserivard · 29 days

Wait guys. My grandma can't even use an iPad. I don't mean surfing on the internet or anything like that. She can't swipe through pictures.

Niklam · 29 days

Just use Teamviewer and do everything for them. That's what I do.

fawker · 29 days

Your first mistake was trying to get her to use something that didn't say internet on it.

Have fun with that shit.

Sargentrock · 29 days

I look the same when trying to walk my wife through watching anything that involves more than changing the channel on the TV...

smokinJoeCalculus · 29 days

My grandma has issues with technology from time to time, but one of my proudest moments was when she thanked me for introducing her to Gmail.

vibro · 29 days

Dude, if you installed chrome on her computer - because let's face it she didn't do that herself - you don't call it the chrome icon. Rookie mistake.

Ask: "Do you see the color wheel on the desktop?"

You might have to call it something other than desktop though. she'll have her own lingo for stuff.

"Double click that. I mean quickly click on the left side of the mouse twice ... didn't work? Try a little bit faster. There you go grandma."

edit: also if you really get stuck to be tech support for some relative, setting up remote desktop access will save you SOOOO many nerves.

Jurph · 29 days

While I was on vacation in the Outer Banks, I got The Call. I spent over three hours on the phone with my mother-in-law helping her figure out where a file was -- it was an attachment that she had opened from gmail, edited, saved, and then closed (all without noting the location of the file). It wasn't in recent documents.

I finally found it in a TEMP Folder, and she says to me, "There's... right next to my file, there's a file in here called FUCKYOU.TMP . I didn't put it there. What's it doing there? It completely sums up how I feel about this machine right now!" My mother-in-law, dropping f-bombs at me on the phone, and me trying not to actually say that to her. We had a big laugh about it, I told her I'd look at it next time I was up at her house. I helped her attach it to an email and send it off to her friend. Hooray! I'm the hero.

Then I came back upstairs (after three hours!) into the big living room of the vacation house where all of our friends were, and said "well that went well! She said 'Fuck You' to me way more times than I said it to her." My wife's face: priceless.

AdonisChrist · 29 days

That's too advanced. You tell them to open up the internet or start describing what the icons look like.

zeroblood · 29 days

my grandpa was amazed that he could have more than one thing open at a time

suddenly_ponies · 29 days

I usually teach people how to send a "help invite" so I can either control their computer (has never worked properly) or at least see what they see.

furtiveraccoon · 29 days

Desktop icons? pff. amateurs

sexi_squidward · 29 days

lol I just taught my dad

CTRL + Z,X,C,V,A

He still doesn't fully get it

avatar_ang · 29 days

I had to do this in Russian for some of my older relatives. It's much worse when you have to try to explain things without any english computer idioms (and when your Russian is poor). For example, double-click becomes "click twice, no, i mean quickly!". Then I found out all their icons have been switched to Russian by someone else, and I just die inside.

DirtyMonday · 29 days

I just had a pretty rare situation happen to me. I don't/didn't have a computer (Never use one out of work) and my SO's grandmother decided she wanted a new one so she gave me hers. I open it up and there was only one icon on the desktop and it was chrome. Not to mention, the last computer I had back in college had a tiny hard drive and very little RAM. This thing is like a super computer compared to that.

I won't mention the hard drive capacity or the RAM because it's probably laughable compared to some of the machines redditors use

Aweso1mz3 · 29 days

My grandma thinks whenever the screensaver is on she's watching a YouTube video.

bluedanubelloyd · 29 days

I'm the same, except for me it's my dad.

ineedagrownup · 29 days

I can't remember the last time I double clicked an icon.

lazyduke · 29 days

It sounds like you need to look into screen sharing software. Try Mikogo or LogMeIn.

gaog · 29 days

nice, do you have the original image by any chance? thanks

summertime1217 · 29 days

My grandfather doesn't understand that the mouse moves the arrow on the screen.

rounding_error · 29 days

On the other hand, this is how you look to your grandma.

AlexWoodRules · 29 days

Click enter could be easier for her

fistingtotheoldies · 29 days

i asked my grandma what her wifi password is.... 20 minutes of saying its not the phone cord.

xDrSchnugglesx · 29 days

I had to talk to my 60 year old mother about how to plug in the VCR yesterday after smoking a joint. It was terrible.

meatee · 29 days

I finally just installed LogMeIn on my grandfather's computer, so if he screws something up, I can just take over his computer and fix it remotely. The only problem is when he starts moving the mouse on his end for no apparent reason.

cvntagion · 29 days

I work in the online banking call center for a bank.

Most people "I can't log in." ME "Ok, are you in front of a computer." Most people "No, I'm in the car." Me "Ok, well that's your first problem."

danilynnrobinson · 29 days

i looked for a payphone in walmart the other day. nope.

RedditIsImmature · 29 days

Double-click is a shitty convention to begin with.

retneftw · 29 days

Joke's on you I changed the settings and only have to click once.

reddeth · 29 days

<Lac> Whats so unfathomable of: Double click zip file, hit extract, click the C: Drive, hit ok.

<hmne> Slow down, double what?

via Bash.org

ZittyMcgee · 29 days

This is how I feel

AlphaHotel_94 · 29 days

This is shit my grandmother mass-forwards everyone in the family and then posts on Facebook.

Robby5566 · 29 days

Double clicking your browser icon? Someone

TomtheFrench · 29 days

Things like this make me happy that the most advanced technology my grandma has is a toaster.

No tv. No radio. No microwave. Hell, she still has a working rotary phone.

OftenSarcastic · 29 days

"What is double click?"

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

UnderstandingPrimus · 29 days

Please tell me im not the only one that single clicks and presses enter?

Forankai · 29 days

I installed CrossLoop on every pc my relative own. This way I can troubleshoot fast and easy.

D1M1R · 29 days

I know that. I spent a half hour on the phone with my grandmother trying to get her to type in the correct captcha because she was trying to make a Gmail account. Jimminy.

Iwantztorock · 29 days

That's ok my parents still pay for aol.

Creeperlord36 · 29 days

i don't have to deal with this my grandma already knows how to use a computer and an Ipad

StevieBoySwag · 29 days

who the fuck still uses a corded phone?

Dimestoresaint · 29 days

I remember when I tried to teach my grandmother how to use a computer. I said to "move the arrow on the screen using the mouse" she picks up the mouse and slams it against my plasma screen and starts moving it. Nope. We are done here.

leujin · 29 days

It's because of this very reason that we changed the Chrome icon on my mother-in-law's computer to say "internet."

thre323 · 29 days

I live with my grandpa. He just got a computer. Oofta.

My favorite story, and I'll try to be short:

I'm at work, he drives up and walks in (I work as a salesman in a cellphone retailer) and waits patiently on a chair while I'm helping a customer.

Grandpa: "Jon, I can't close that dang internet google crum thing." Me: "You just need to x-out grandpa" G: "I have been!" M: "Hmm, so you've been pressing the "x" in the top right corner like we practiced?" G: "No, I've been pressing the "x" key. Man I suck." (with a slight smile on his face)

TareXmd · 29 days

"Ok I clicked it once, now I'm clicking it again."

"No I mean do both clicks at the same time"

clicks right and left mouse buttons together

TremendousPete · 29 days

My grandpa called me once to make a link on his desktop to a fantasy football league website. I didn't want to help, but was guilted into it. So I tell him to right click the desktop and select 'new'. He tells me he doesn't want it on his desktop, he wants it on his computer screen. A solid hour and a half to make ONE shortcut. And then he asked me to help with another one right after that, and I basically ran away from the phone.

GeebusNZ · 29 days

I hope everyone that found this funny takes a moment to consider the fact that one day, someone who isn't born currently, may have to carefully walk you through how to use modern technology.

guy_on-a_buffalo · 29 days

As an IT professional, that is me all day, every day.

TAA420 · 29 days

Whats that thing coming off the phone?

barbados-slim · 29 days

who the fuck let your grandmother get a computer? that's like giving a child a loaded gun.

otherwiseguy · 29 days

My dad: "What do you mean, 'double-click'?"

micahshell · 29 days

That's why I'm glad my grandparents are dead.

NoDiggityNoDoubt · 29 days

That's the problem: stop trying to shove Chrome down everyone's damn throat. People are used to I.E. and FireFox. Sure, you might think they are shitty browsers, but guess what, they work just as well as Chrome for all intents and purposes.

funny

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