Fauxgeek
Today, my 84-year-old grandmother taught me a keyboard shortcut. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
jhftrainer23
United States
Today, the woman I'm training at work asked, while staring intently at the keyboard, "Now, which one of these buttons is the space-bar again?" She is 80 years-old, types about one word per minute, and I have just one week to get her completely trained. FML
Anonymous
United States
Today, I began training my replacement at work. She's a senior citizen. She got excited when I taught her how to highlight text on the screen and double-click the mouse because she "never knew how to do those fancy tricks." The job is entirely computer-based. I have to train her for 6 weeks. FML
PiaNO
United Kingdom
Pure evil
Today, I was teaching a ten year old how to play piano. Halfway through the lesson, she made a minor mistake, which, trying to be a good tutor, I corrected her. She smiled up at me, paused, then slammed the key cover down onto my fingers. FML
Anonymous
Manchester, United Kingdom
Good one, Meemaw
Today, I was teaching my grandma how to use her new tablet. After explaining and setting everything up, I left her alone to check her email. When I came back, she'd somehow "mistakenly" sent an email to our entire family with the subject line "Help! My grandson thinks I'm a dipshit and has kidnapped me!" FML
Anonymous
United States
Hacker
Today, my 8 year-old sister learned how to type her name into a phone using the number keypad. I later found my phone on the kitchen counter with all my contacts under her name. FML
Pete
United States
Nearly there
Today, I was on a video call with my grandmother, trying to teach her how to use Facebook. I patiently explained the difference between posting a status and sending a private message. Five minutes later, I saw her new status: “I love you, honey. Thanks for being so patient with me. By the way, I still don’t understand this shit.” FML
shamwazzlefarznarfnarfwoofbaaa
Bronx, United States
Today, I had to teach my grandma how to burn files to CDs. I jokingly said that it doesn't involve literally burning the disks in fire, to which she responded by slapping me and calling me a patronizing brat. FML
phantomthelabrat
Fargo, United States
Today, I was assigned to be the one to teach Grandpa how to use his new smartphone. An hour in, and we're still going over volume controls. FML
Fred from NY
Rochester, United States
Rude!
Today, I was showing my grandma how to use emojis on her new smartphone. After she sent a cute smiley face, she went on to send a string of random emojis, including the eggplant and the peach, to her church group chat. When she found out the meaning those emojis usually have, she tried to ground me, even though I'm 28. FML
chickety boom
Austin, United States
Today, my 70-year-old grandmother held a celebration over officially having divorced my grandfather. FML
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jeffprobs 29
Can I rent her to teach my grandma
Magnoxidans 19
CTRL + Schooled.
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Comments (42)
Oh_No_Not_Him 25
Hey, old people can be geeks too!
KittyKat168 8
My grampy's the same age and his phone's better than mine! My 54yo uncle's trying everything he can to get me to use these damn smartphone things!
URBeingLied2 23
Don't do it. They just gather information about you and hold it in the cloud for better hackers than the last team they guarded the system against.
Magnoxidans 19
CTRL + Schooled.
Shaky_Spear 11
⌘ + Knowledge.
EvilLittleMan 23
Never under estimate the smarts of old farts.
Welshite 40
I always collected my old farts in a jar and took them with me whenever I needed to take an exam. It's how I passed my classes.
nanam329 12
Wait what? ._.
freddygasman 18
Welshite, you passed your classes by passing gases?
OlRed 28
Of course 14, that's how you pass chemistry. ... At least I hope it was chemistry, otherwise I would feel really sorry for the rest of the class. Oh and English, but that's a whole other jar of farts... I mean thoughts. * scratches head* i'll just stop before my professor catches wind.
jeffprobs 29
Can I rent her to teach my grandma
NeatNit 33
The word you're looking for is "hire" ;)
jcash52426 5
Your suppose to learn something new everyday. Be happy that you grandmother was able to teach you something on the computer.
farmgirl98 14
The elderly these days... All they talk about are those newfangled technologies I tell ya!
LostInTheZone11 29
Hey be glad you don't have to teach her how to use the computer.
moodyreallyrocks 27
Awkward!!
pampa31 15
GET REKT