Anyone else get frustrated ?

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Sp1r1tWater927 · 23/05/2021 20:40

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I live several hours away

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A place that never had parking charges, now has a pay by mobile phone meter
I can't park there any more
But you have a mobile phone for emergencies
I don't always take it with me
You are supposed to take it with you every journey, incase you break down
I don't know how to use the mobile
Go to the meter & read the instructions & try doing it, learn how to do it

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Meet me at X
I don't know how to get there
You have a sat nav built into the car ( has been shown numerous times how to use)
I will send you a map printed off the Internet, with address, phone number etc

Anyone else have similar conversations?

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Mischance · 24/05/2021 09:58

Hey - let's cut them a bit of slack! Some will take to the new technologies, some won't.

WhatHaveIFound · 24/05/2021 09:45

It’s frustrating and my mum has only just admitted that she really wished she'd learned how to use a computer/ipad. As they get older they're relying on me more and more so I really sympathise with you OP.

Today I have to...
Speak to Apple as dad has signed out of his devices, forgotten his password and now has no access to his email to reset his Apple ID.
Phone their doctor to chase up test results, physio & Parkinson's clinic
Make an appointment for them to add me to their bank account

I live 50 mins away from them and I find I'm having to drive over there more and more often to sort things out whilst my sister who lives aboard does nothing.

SynchroSwimmer · 23/05/2021 23:16

Oh yes!
DM, looking at broadband leaflets through her letterbox, asks me “do you have broadband?” Followed by “Is it good?” and as a DM reader she then says “you have to be careful you know” 😂

Meanwhile MIL (aged 96) is busy on her IPad Pro, chatting on Facetime, every single day with Canada, Australia, Belgium, Germany and Ipswich (admittedly not always on the most appropriate timelines for the recipients 😂)
I meanwhile am her “Remote IT Helpdesk” when her fingers stray on to the wrong pages...

partyatthepalace · 23/05/2021 22:50

It’s frustrating - but it’s really hard I think to get to grips with so much change.

Have you tried going with them to parking metre?

Tigresswoods · 23/05/2021 22:36

MIL is 87 & currently in hospital following a fall. A very well meaning friend suggested I show her how to get bbc sounds on her phone & sort her out with some headphones.

I couldn't even begin to think MIL would grasp this.

CharlotteRose90 · 23/05/2021 21:13

Oh god you are literally describing my mum, it is frustrating but I think back to my mums time when things were different. My mums 72 and in her time phones and stuff didn’t exist. I think it’s kinda cool actually.

FleetwoodRaincoat · 23/05/2021 21:08

I have this with my parents. I'm mostly frustrated because both of them have always been good with technology, but feel somehow now that they don't have to try because I will do it for them. And don't get me started on passwords ...

GreenClock · 23/05/2021 21:04

Not with my parents actually - I’ll say that for them. I’ve come across “learned helplessness” a fair bit from elderly customers at work though. Having said that, it must be hard to navigate this techy world we inhabit if you have no confidence with IT because you never used it at work before retirement.

Veuvelily · 23/05/2021 20:48

I feel really sorry for old people who have to navigate new technology

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