pray for patience for me. Mom wants to do an evite and she doesn't know how. She won't even try to do it on her own. If I tell her "it's pretty self explanatory, why don't you try it and let me know if you have a problem", she accuses me of not wanting to help her. Instead, she wants me to walk her through it. And of course, she won't call my brother who did phone support for a living because "he's so busy because he has a family"
My mom calls me to help her delete rows in Excel. Or copy and paste something in Word. She usually just ends up sending me the file so I can do it and send it back to her.
I am very lucky in that my mom is very easy person to get along with and fun to hang out with, but share a room? Nope. I pointed out that I have always been a light sleeper. I reminded her that when we visited my brother in Holland when he first moved there years ago, I made us go to Ikea so I could buy a mattress to sleep on in the storage room so I could be in a separate room.
you know, if I'm going to walk you through something DO WHAT I FUCKING TELL YOU!! I do not want to hear "Oh, I didn't do that, I saw something else so I clicked that" I also do not need you to tell me everything that you are typing.
Families--what ya gonna do?
please see above.
Oh Vortex, how I wish I could hand you a very strong mojito.
you know, if I'm going to walk you through something DO WHAT I FUCKING TELL YOU!! I do not want to hear "Oh, I didn't do that, I saw something else so I clicked that" I also do not need you to tell me everything that you are typing.
It is the cry of tech support everywhere.
you know, if I'm going to walk you through something DO WHAT I FUCKING TELL YOU!! I do not want to hear "Oh, I didn't do that, I saw something else so I clicked that" I also do not need you to tell me everything that you are typing.
Oy.
ION, Rutherford, NJ, seems to be becoming a vegan destination. They've got a vegan cupcake shop, and a new pancake house just opened that, in addition to eggy options, also has scrambled tofu and vegan pancakes. I'm kinda scratching my head over this. Rutherford? It's just a fairly boring typical suburb.
Hil, is that northern NJ? My brother's family live in southern NJ and my niece is trying to eat vegan. I'd like to steer her to some good places to check out (she's in the Cherry Hill area).
You know what? Don't apologize because your computer is slow, don't apologize because you keep losing your connection. Apologize because you won't listen to me. Apologize because you can't follow simple directions.
I find this particularly frustrating because my mother is a very intelligent woman. She has a Ph.D., she is incredibly capable of doing so many things. But, she can't do this simple thing.
Hil, is that northern NJ? My brother's family live in southern NJ and my niece is trying to eat vegan. I'd like to steer her to some good places to check out (she's in the Cherry Hill area).
Yeah, that's north Jersey, right near NYC. I'm pretty sure there are a few places near Cherry Hill, though.
I find this particularly frustrating because my mother is a very intelligent woman. She has a Ph.D., she is incredibly capable of doing so many things. But, she can't do this simple thing.
This is so my mom, too. She programed computers that went into space. She can't figure out how to watch a DVD. Or remember that it should go into the DVD player and not the CD player.
