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Tech support to family member:

Mom: "App just goes black after 30 seconds"
Me: "remove it and install again"
Mom: "how?"
Me: "tap the icon and hold till icon wiggles"
Mom: "doesn't do anything"
Me: "did you tap and hold?"
Mom: "hold what?"
Me:"Tap and and don't pull your finger up"
Mom: "Nothing... oh wait, yes it jiggles"
Me: "lift finger, tap the x that appeared on the icon, follow instructions"
Mom: "ok did that so what do I do now?"
Me: Grrrrrrrrr
Mom: "ok it's deleted"
Me: "Go to app store, and search for the app. after you tap the appstore icon, in a moment or so you should see a magnifying glass icon with the word search, tap that"
Mom: "nope no magnifying glass"
Me: ggrrrrrrr "yes their is one"
Mom: "nope"
Me: "yep"
Mom: "nope, it isn't their, I'M NOT STUPID YOU KNOW JUST BECAUSE I'M OLD!!! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS THINK I'M SO STUPID? THERE IS NO MAGNIFYING GLASS!!!"
Me: Deep, deep deep breath to the point of bursting my lungs (which is the preferable outcome)
Me: "top right corner or bottom right corner"
Mom: silence.... a few crickets in the background then some giggles followed with "Oh yea, their it is "....

20 minute call. no hi, how are you, how's your day. Just hello, I have a problem, it's fixed, bye.

Sometimes, and I don't want to sound mean BUT I wish we could pick our family.....

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  • 2
    @Alice lol. I'm sharing the more humerous call of what amounts to about 20+ years of weekly and at times near daily calls, visits, requests for stuff, then as I'm setting things up deciding it isn't needed. Guess it's reaching a tipping point, so yea, this plus at least a 1000 other ones over that time period...

    We can call it the "straw that's breaking my back". Every (and I mean every) chat about technology ends the same way, an accusation of personal attack...
  • 0
    Chill man, they prolly put up with you when you were a kid and didn't understand anything. I'm not judging you or anything. Just pointing out a different perspective. Please don't feel bad that I'm commenting without actually knowing anything about you. Please don't get me wrong. :)
  • 1
    @exceptionalGuy lol, valid statements all. Been chillin since 1990.
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    Sometimes I like to think I'm a potato like my dad's laptop.
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    @exceptionalGuy I got you wrong...
  • 1
    @linuxer4fun Since you know you got me wrong, discard the message and re-read what I commented. Repeat until validation successful.
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    @exceptionalGuy rea read thirty times, still got you wrong
  • 1
    @Alice Dunno. 😁
  • 1
    @linuxer4fun Well, you're prolly on some different encoding scheme then. You should just leave it, I would say.
  • 0
    @exceptionalGuy im reoding utf93, not backwards compatible
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