Tuesday, February 19, 2008

New Technology, Old Generation

This is personally funny to me, because after I gave my mom Direct TV, hardly a day went by when she wouldn't call me to say she'd done something to make the picture go away. I kept a manual for the remote next to my bed so I could talk her down into a safe landing. After she passed on, I found a full box of DVDs I had given her that weren't even opened. She was afraid to switch from her satellite box to her DVD player. fixfix_2.jpeg

5 comments:

Mark said...

I can relate. My future Father-in-law is similarly confused by the Cox Cable remote. Only the manual is missing, so I have to fiddle with the remote until I come across the right combination of keys to clear whatever catastrophe he has wrought.

Mark said...

By the way, did you draw that cartoon?

Lone Ranger said...

Nope, I didn't draw it. Would this help?

Anonymous said...

Too bad my grandma has passed on. She would have gotten a kick out of that--especially the "TV explodes" button. She'd tell you how accurate it is. Her neighbor's TV did explode (pre-remote days, though), in the middle of the night, setting the house on fire. Grandma always unplugged her set every night after that!

Jim O said...

LOL!! That's how I se it, too. We have three DVD players in the house (my two daughters are spoiled rotten, I know) and I don't know what buttons to push to make two of them work. My daughters keep telling me, but I keep forgetting.