Today I was on the phone with my father looking at different car sites on our respective computers and the following is a part of our conversation:
JESSICA: Just put in toyota.com
MY FATHER: Okay (typing) Toy..o..ta..dot..com. Got it.
JESSICA: Okay, now, do you see on the left hand side, the drop down menu?
MY FATHER: I’m now on NaughtyDating.com. How did that happen?
JESSICA: I don’t know. Maybe mom rigged your computer. Moving on?
MY FATHER: Now what do I do? Should I try it again.
JESSICA: No, I think you buy a six month membership and see what happens? Dad, please…
MY FATHER: Sorry. Let me type in the address one more time…
JESSICA: You know what? I’m good. I think I’m just going to buy a Mazda.
It’s like the elephant in the room, isn’t it? My father and I have the exact same relationship (except he’d NEVER admit the site he ended up on…)
Ha ha!!
I just send my Dad the urls in email. Makes things easier. Plus I know all of his logins and passwords so I can just do stuff for him rather than suffering on the phone for a half-hour while he reads me error messages.
My dad had a big laugh over John and I arguing about when he bought Sprite a Woody doll when I had just gotten one for her. I neglected to add “doll” to “Woody” and my father practically busted a gut over our words. My dad is that childish.
My mom and I were trying to find a memorial tree to have planted in remembrance of my cousin’s daughter who had just passed away. Where we ended up was a porn site with naked women and tree like objects. Not sure how that happened but it did make us laugh.
I love how technology can transform ordinarily very intelligent people into amoebas. I do the same things with my parents.
P.S. I don’t turn my parents into amoebas. No, no. I meant, I try to walk them through the Internet, and it’s always a mind boggler.
lol!
Every time I try to help my parents with the computer, I want to kill myself.
I think I’m your Dad. That kind of thing happens to me all the time.
But SO funny when it happens to someone else.
When staying in my recently late grandfather’s house over Thanksgiving with my mom & dad, I was reviewing a blog site belonging someone who commened on mine. Just as I was scrolling down to reveal decorated drawings of naked bodies (oh no), father walked by. I obsessively clicked the “x” with guilt trying desperately to get rid of it. Too late.
Yeah, my dad would never have admitted he got to that site. Clearly your dad is way cool.
And HOW did he get to that site, btw? Maybe you could forward it to me……
(JK, I think)
Our dinner convo last Friday.
My brother in law: I don’t want to get a vasectomy. It will steal my manhood.
My dad: Hell, it was easy. I did it over lunch and went back to the office.
My brother in law, to my sister: that’s what birth control pills are for, right?
My sister: yeah, maybe for you. I’m done with that bullshit. When this baby is out of me in February, I’m done.
My dad: Sounds like she’s giving you an ultimatum. I guess there’s always abstinence. You get used to it after a while. And there’s always self-love.
Did I mention this was my mom’s birthday dinner?
Parents? They exist (scratch that, I mean live) to embarrass us.
Hehehe so funny! I would be blushing too!
Hilarious!
I’m going to try Toyota.com right now.
I mean..I’m just curious!
Now I HAVE to go check it out the Toyotas!!
Parents + internet = hilarity. Pretty consistently.
Okay, I just read Lynn at human being’s response…loved that.
I would die, Jessica. Die. I wonder if he was blushing too. It’s some good blog fodder though. Thanks for sharing it!!
Hey, happy holidays to you…I did just send you a quick email saying the same thing, but it can’t hurt to say it twice.
That SO reminds me of talking to my dad…
That is pretty funny. Reminds of me of Thanksgiving two years ago. Here is the abbreviated version.
My son and one of my nephews are watching bloopers on the computer. I walk out of the room and grab a cup of coffee. I am gone for less than two minutes.
Within that time they stumble onto something that they shouldn’t watch.
My son relates to me how he just saw the funniest thing. Of course he manages to provide a graphic discussion of this in front of my mother.
That was all sorts of fun.
That’s just way too funny! I think I’ll stick to sending URL’s to my dad via email instead of trying to walk him through them over the phone…
Years ago I was new to the web and to gardening, and I entered the word “bulb” to search out exotic flower bulbs. I don’t even want to tell you what I found. I didn’t know that people find enema bulbs sexy. Ohmygod. I still want to take a bath every time I even think about it!
lol Love it! Couldn’t figure out why I haven’t had any updates in my reader, here I found you moved! I have been a bad blog reader (and writer I might add) while finishing up school, but I look forward to reading so much more from you and reading back to catch up. I hope your holiday was grand.
Oh, ick! When my parents got their first computer (not that long ago), I sent my dad an email from a fake XXX site thanking him for his membership and listing his email address and phone number. He freaked. FREAKED. It was great.
Hilarious…better than than the passive aggress jabs about money and the irresponsible guy you married.