Is there anything worse than providing IT support to an elderly relative?
Ring ring... ring ring...

*click*

MrP: Hello?
Dad: I need to scan a photo and email it to someone
MrP: OK
Dad: How do I do that?
MrP: You scan the photo. Save it as a JPEG somewhere you can find it... like your desktop, if there's any space left on it (nyuk nyuk)... and then you attach it to the email you're sending.

(Now, I was anticipating questions like 'what's a JPEG' and 'how do I attach it?' However...)

Dad: which button do I press on the scanner?
MrP: you have to use the scan software
Dad: I can't see it... nope, it's not on my computer
MrP: Yes it is. *Takes deep breath* Press Start.
Dad: What's that?
MrP: You know, the start button. The big button with START written on it.
Dad: I don't have that.
MrP: Bottom left of your screen. What do you see?
Dad: Oh-ho! I've never noticed that before! What does it do?

I swear this is a true story. 5 years using Windows XP and the Start button had never been touched.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:24, 2 replies)

The poor bugger obviously hasn't got a clue - it's almost like he was brought up in a different generation...
There's nothing funnier than the older generation feeling lost in a world of technologies they don't understand, then to be ridiculed by the very people they've spent most of their lives looking after...

lol
(likeajackhammer, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:28, closed)

Except
Until he retired my Dad was Finance Director of a 'well-known multinational', and has been using computers since the 1960s.

He still dabbles in Management Accounting and uses Sage, Excel etc. all the time. He really did not know what the Start button was for - I blame myself for setting his PC up so that everything he would need had a shortcut on the desktop.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:40, closed)