I hate ignorance.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Tell me you're exaggerating....

And how long have you been reading about these nimrods on this forum?

[houdini]

See the thing is these people forget it's an APPLIANCE and like any other appliance needs to be plugged in and TURNED ON!!

damn what is so hard about that.

Plu-gg-d in? Don't it work by little gremlins?

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I had a guy a couple of days ago call in the afternoon over a monitor he bought that morning.

Monitor came with english instructions and not french, so he apparently had spent 5 hours with his monitor in a confused stupor, holding a cable, his eyes glazing over, darting between the monitor and the pc tower.

I told him to look for a hole shaped exactly like the plug and he would be set.

I had people cram plugs in the wrong hole and a co-worker had a lady melt the end of a telephone plug with a lighter to make it fit in the phone jack.

[underemployeed]

I had people cram plugs in the wrong hole and a co-worker had a lady melt the end of a telephone plug with a lighter to make it fit in the phone jack.

I had some friends who got paid by the university to fix students' computers... they had a horror story passed down to them back when broadband was becoming popular and all the dorm rooms were getting it. So, cue idjit taking a cat5 cable and using his pocket knife to whittler down the plug so it would fit in his modem port. Idjit couldn't figure out why they were so shocked at what he had done, it was all summed up with the phrase

"Um I have a question, it didn't fit because it was too big, at what point did you think it was a good idea or would work to "fix" the plug as you so put it?"

[Mytical]

My father (poor guy) once plugged a car vacuum into a house outlet...wish I had been there to say "NOOOO!!!!!"..but I was assured the sparks were pretty at least.

It's designed to work on 12v..and it gets plugged into a house outlet..yeah..that is going to work .

If not for me, I don't think they would use anything more complicated then a TV. Today my mother couldn't figure out how to put a handset phone into its docking port. She had the port upside down...

[Bandit]

If not for me, I don't think they would use anything more complicated then a TV. Today my mother couldn't figure out how to put a handset phone into its docking port. She had the port upside down...

Sounds familiar.

I've banned my dad from having anything more than a TV.

Why?

He's had an interest in getting a computer, so I have bought and given him 3. And each time (including a Mac - there's only one button on the mouse!), he's called me to take it away. Once that involved 8 hours driving each way.

He's also called in a panic when he somehow managed to change the input to his TV. It's a challenge to that fixed over the phone when I don't even use the same system.

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[DGoddessChardonnay]

Try getting a phone call at work from your Mom because she can't figure out what button she hit on the cable remote.

Happened to me quite a few years ago more times than I care to recall . . . then we got satellite service and for the first few months it continued until she got the hang of the remote.

Now we have cable again as of last week and the remotes have since become WAY more advanced. Just last night I had to show Mom how to use the play/pause/fast forward and rewind buttons so she could watch Friday's episode of "Blue Bloods" that she missed on the On Demand channel.

Then my phone went off some time later after the show had finished playing and she couldn't remember which button to push to go back to the channel so she could select another show (I think it was Law and Order: LA) to watch.

Too bad there's not a Technology For Dummies book out there . . . in large print.

[DeltaSierra]

See the thing is these people forget it's an APPLIANCE and like any other appliance needs to be plugged in and TURNED ON!!

damn what is so hard about that.

Why should it have to be plugged in?? It said it was WIRELESS!!

[tropicsgoddess]

One of my old co-workers had a SC that thought wireless meant not having to plug any cords into your router, modem and computer.

[dalesys]

From the '60s:

The new TV set doesn't need to be plugged in because it is "transistorized". And everyone knew that meant it ran on batteries.

[underemployeed]

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Too bad there's not a Technology For Dummies book out there . . . in large print.

Um, those books are like AA, they only work if you can admit you have a problem.