Most dcn't know but for the past decade, or so, I've been very much active in trying to care for my mother since she's now in her seventies, This seems like something that would be a natural part of life and a responsibility that any son would take upon himself.... After all, the woman birthed me ( or at least that's the story I got and the whole family's been sticking to it for years. But let me tell you something,,,

If Darth Vader and The Wicked Witch of the West had a baby - IT would fear my mother!

Have you ever seen the movie "Throw Momma From The Train"? Well multiply THAT woman by about twenty and you've got a fair idea of what I put up with on a daily basis.

And this was all good and tolerable ( with the help of a LOT of medication and Crown Royal ) right up until Mumra the Everliving ( as I effectionately call her ) decided that she wanted to be "hip" and got herself onto the Internet and bought an iPhone. Now my life is Hell.

Old people should be banned from technology! I mean seriously... some army should come into her home, confiscate her electronics, take away her microwave, coffee maker, and her new laundry set because I get at least fifteen to twenty calls per day to come "fix" things that aren't broken.

One example: She called me to say her Yahoo mail broke. Knowing that this is impossibe I drove to her house to see what she was doing wrong - so I asked her to log onto her account so that I could figure it all out... She proceeds to go to the URL bar and type in "email" followed by her username and password. Then she pushes enter.So I spend about two hours explaining things to her, writing it all down so that she has reference materials, and I go home. Two days later I get a call saying it's still "broken"... show up... same exact situation.

Now I can cope with the reality that she drives 19 miles an hour on the freeway. I can almost deal with the fact that when I take her shopping she spends hours picking up every single item in the store, saying "Twenty years ago this cost eight dollars less - this store is a rip-off"... I can even make it through the lectures she gives me about how upset she is I am not a virgin ( I'm 46 freaking years old with two ex wives and kids )... but the tech stuff???

Is it too late to start lobbyin for the whole Logans Run "Carousel" idea???

~Heff

No bring Logans run in, by all means, um, your 46, over 30s get the chop.

Bye bye Hefficide!

Why not have your Mum live with you, then you don't need to do all that fack and borward stuff.

It's your Mom!

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As soon as I reach the age where Ill be a burden to my family, Ill start doing crazy crap, skydiving, hunting lions, bungee jumping, heroin... you know crazy stuff.

If I die, oh well at least I had fun and wouldn't be a burden.

I used to joke with my parents that I would find them a 20/20 retirement home if they didn't behave in their old age.

I feel for you I really do.

My family think I'm the part of the emergency services and on call 24/7

I persuaded my farther to buy a laptop and go on the internet. He has now met a woman and will be marrying her (inheritance down the drain) and also calls me night and day with silly questions about the web.

He is at that stage were he tells the same story's over and over and is gradually losing touch with reality

Old people should be banned from driving...



Seriously though...

I know young people who are just as bad with tech.hell a 36 year old I know keeps hounding me about how to text on a droid I sold him,for Christ's sake touch what you want on the screen.I consider him a tech retard,no matter bow many times I tell him it just doesn't sink in.
my grandmother became a right burden on my mother,really horrible to her even though she was here only kid who actually visited and helped her.she also used to press the emergency button linked to her phone in the middle of the night(for fun I think)then my mother would have to go see she was ok.only once had she actually had a fall.she was driving my mother to an early grave and it was like a weight had been lifted when she died,sad but true.thank God she wasn't into tech!
my mum is just as bad about tech,she is in her sixties and recently got an android.got that sick of her touching things she didn't understand that I turned off her data.I had to drum into her about the home and back button,she only makes calls now which makes my life easier.what is it about phones and people not being able to work simple functions?
I feel for you mate.

Originally posted by daaskapital
Old people should be banned from driving...



Seriously though...

have you ever watched sir Jackie Stewart race?even to this day he still races at Goodwood etc.it's like the tech,people of all ages are crap at it.

I would just not jump every time she makes a demand like my email is broke come fix it. I think between that, and finding some computers for seniors classes at the local library or community college would help a lot.

Life is about, if nothing else, a shifting perspective upon life.
You had one view as an infant and that gradually shifted until you arrived at today.
Your mother has moved on from your view of today, and allowing for the time of her "today," it probably wasn't much different than your today.

I suspect you intended that OP in equal parts of humor and lament. Print it out. Save it. Put it on your 'fridge. Your time will come when your knowledge of computers, the internet and the world in general are useless baggage that interfers with your then undesirable and frightful position of being trapped in a world you didn't make or even dream about. May your children be as decent toward their male parent as you really are toward your mother. Humor toward life is sometimes better than trying to understand it.

Originally posted by glen200376

Originally posted by daaskapital
Old people should be banned from driving...



Seriously though...

have you ever watched sir Jackie Stewart race?even to this day he still races at Goodwood etc.it's like the tech,people of all ages are crap at it.

There is no doubt however that Elderly people are more prone to accidents...