Old dogs and new tricks
Grandad November 27th, 2011
I see myself as a fairly ordinary bloke.
I muddle along through life, doing the best I can and occasionally jotting my thoughts down here. I don’t see anything extraordinary in that?
But then I come across something like this –
Are your folks missing out because they’re not online?
Have you ever tried to help?
We know how difficult it can be!
Aha! So that’s where I have been going wrong? It explains one hell of a lot. I shouldn’t be messing around here on the Interweb at all. I have to wait until the daughter shows me how.
I will look forward to that.
So apparently she is going to teach me about “Using the mouse”? That’s wrong for a start. I don’t want to use the little fucker – I just want to kill it. It has been shitting all over the place and resolutely ignoring all the traps.
Then there is “Sending an email”. Again, that’s wrong. I want to know how to send thousands of emails with one press of a key. Those Viagra won’t sell themselves.
And “Shopping online”? No, no, no! That won’t do. I need a course on “Stopping shopping online”. Maybe then I could teach it to Herself. Badly needed. Just ask the poor postman.
Delving onto the site, I found a links page with all the links that any old fart would need. There is a section there called “Blogs written by Older People”. That’ll be interesting, I thought. And what do I find in there? Me. Me and Grannymar. The only two they could find? And we are not even related? Fuck!
So I am being held up as a beacon of light to the Old Folk of Ireland? If that old fart can do it, then anyone can? Hah!
In the meantime, I had better let the daughter know about this site so she can start teaching me.
Now, if only I knew how to use email………………
Subscribe to audio
What a good idea though. Ideal for my mother in law.
There ya go now. Start printing out those courses……
heavens what am i to do?i’ve never had children i’ll never get hip and online twittery..
thanks grandad, gave me the best laugh
Yes, your fame is spreading far and wide. Knows no frontiers.
So you’re now a beacon of light to nice old mothers who are being taught to use a computer by their daughters? Really? Hell, this beats the Irish Blog Awards all to shit now doesn’t it? Wonder what Grannymar thinks of all this?
Kirk M´s last brainfart .. When everything happens at once
I don’t know about Grannymar but I’m a bit worried about your blog being the one first-time users of the internet are being introduced to! Might be a bit much for elderly spinsters.
Cat – Have you thought of teaching yourself? All the course material is there
TT – Just call me Captain Kirk. He was a great one for exploring all the frontiers, up to and including the final one?
Kirk M – It’s not the first time either. Grannymar and I have been paired off before as examples to The Old Folk!
Meltimian – Why? Sure I’m as harmless as a big cuddly teddy bear?