Today, we got my dad an iPad for his birthday. I had to repeatedly reassure him that he could in fact touch the screen without being shocked. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my dad borrowed my new iPad to amuse him while he was in the shower without my knowledge. The iPad is now completely ruined, and my dad is refusing to buy me a new one. He says, "How was I to know that it wasn't waterproof?" FML
Today, I found out my dad bought an iPhone. I've spent the better part of the last six months teaching him how to check his email and online newspapers. FML
Today, I was shopping when I overheard a woman telling an employee that she was buying an iPad for her 5-year-old son. Annoyed, I turned around and ranted about how he should have more age appropriate toys. Then she explained that her son is autistic and will be using the iPad to communicate. FML
Today, after saving up for weeks, I bought myself an iPad. Because mine is better than the one my parents bought my ten-year-old brother, he got pissed and threw it into our pool. I'm now grounded for getting angry and calling him a bastard in the aftermath. FML
Today, my parents bought my 11-year-old brother a MacBook for my birthday. FML
Today, the whole family came over to celebrate my 18th birthday. My grandfather bought me a giant mathematics book. Apparently, he didn't want my 16 year old sister to be "jealous", so he got her the new iPad. FML
Today, my dad forgot it's my birthday. When I told him about it, he accused me of lying and threatened to ground me for a week. FML
Today, my dad gathers so much static electricity from almost everything that he does that I've become paranoid and scared to touch him at all. He thinks I hate him now. FML
Today, I was looking at some cellphones with my dad, when an assistant asked if we needed help. My dad said, "Yeah, does this have parental controls? My son watches some freaky stuff, some damn freaky stuff." I don't watch anything weird, but thanks for humiliating me, dad. FML
Today, while mopping the kitchen, I ended up slipping and and knocked over the table that had my mom’s iPad on it. The screen shattered; I sprained my wrist. I asked my mom to take me to the ER. She called me "selfish" because her iPad screen repair would "cost more." FML
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lishajoy777 14
play a lot of trick on him do ya?
worldclassrager 41
Get him a stylus...
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lishajoy777 14
play a lot of trick on him do ya?
starile 20
OP: "Careful, don't shake it, or all the gigabytes will fall out! You'll lose all your memory!"
Melix 31
Awe, lol. He'll get the hang of it.....someday
DyslexicPanda 12
Or he possibly knew that these touch screens are just glass capacitors and figured he could be shocked every time he touched it, which technically we do get shocked every time we touch the screen, it's just such a small amount of charge you don't feel it.
ElizabethNL93 20
Maybe #2.. Some of these "old folks" can't seem to get the hang of modern technology. Although, when they do, it can be quite humorous. My grandpa is a really good texter for being 68 years old
Spyfiction 6
Ya OP, this is quite shocking
thrifting 18
My elderly great aunts have added me on Facebook and take the liberty of sharing most of my status updates and pictures to their own wall. Stahp.
worldclassrager 41
Get him a stylus...
TheBrochure 22
Or a shock pen disguised as a stylus!
_parth 20
#21. It's not very fun to prank your dad like that!! I shocked my dad before with the shocking gum. It turned out I was sent to boarding school for playing too many pranks.
lanco_fml 10
did you yell boo when he first touched the screen
DWordHead16 19
Aww, I think that's kinda adorable(: I bet you prank him a lot, which is why he thinks that hahaha :P
sunnyray812 42
All you have to do is teach him, and it'll be fine.
timakinz 21
It's a matter of somewhat paranoia, not education/the lack of it.
Dodge4x4Ram 46
download OPERATION & tell him it shocks if he touches the sides
Anthony805 8
Old school father eh?
tommylover842 23
Oh the technologically ignorant are so amusing :)
insomnimaniak 19
I prefer the term "technologically challenged" :P
bobak_can_ani 7
Let's see how You will do in 30 years
singer0421 32
Don't worry old dogs can eventually learn new tricks