Elderly Mum's Text's

[Icequeen01]

We bought my 80 year old mum a very simple mobile phone (advertised as being a "more mature person's smart phone"). She can't figure out the internet or anything like that but we wanted her to be able to at least send texts to her friends and the family. She can't work out how to type a text so she uses the voice recognition but never, ever reads her texts before she sends them! It's always takes a bit of detective work to work out what she means. This is the latest one my sister has received.

"When did aliens come out the probably look beautiful bye bye"

😂😂 Anyone else receive funny texts from their elderly parents?

My late mum was quite the silver surfer, but her iPhone foxed her a bit.

I was occasionally treated to a texted pic of her lap, her telly, or a slippered foot.

Bless her.

My parents are still sharp as tacks and very tech savvy, but my DGM used to make a few funny landline calls.

She called us once because she’d forgotten our phone number, so could we give it to her for her new address book? 😅

My mum's first and only voicemail: 'Hello? Hello?? Could you tell A her mother phoned? Hello? I said, COULD YOU TELL A HER MOTHER PHONED?? HELLO? Oh, never mind...'

My Mom somehow manages to forward back to me every message I send her - she doesn't know how she does it either...

(was your Mom's message about Alliums, the ornamental onion flower?)

My Dad is fairly tech savvy but still sent this absolute gem when he returned from holiday...

Me: Hi dad, are you back yet?

Dad: Yes. Back safe and hard

Me: (thinking... what???)

(Few minutes later...)
Dad: back safe and had a good journey.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My mum is far from elderly (she’s 56) but she keeps sending me terrible selfies. She can’t seem to grasp looking at the camera, she’s too busy looking at her finger pressing the camera button, so all of her selfies are just her with her eyes almost closed from a terrible angle (she holds the phone too low).

I spent a painful evening trying to coach her and she kept sending new (awful) selfies asking me if that one was better. I’ve given up

My dad sends texts like he's writing a letter, so it starts- Dear Supermarket, waffle waffle waffle, regards Dad.

My Mum is ok with her phone now but when it was new she couldn't work out how to do a space so every text was.written.with.full.stops.instead Better than my Dad, he doesn't use any punctuation at all and his texts are never brief or to the point!

I get half words and my mum called asking what I was blithering on about. She said my text had random words in the middle not from what I could see.... my brother had a look it was the text she was composing and she’d copied the random piece of text in 🤦🏻‍♀️. I also called her as she was out and we were outside the house(I forgot to bring my key). No calked more than once as she is oblivious to her phone. She then drew up in her car and said ‘I better call Mick (her odd-job man) back he’s called me three times!’ I said it was me, ‘well it’s Micks number!’ No mum that’s just what you’ve left on screen.

When my mum started using Facebook whe misinterpreted the "post on your wall" button for the Search box. We all had a good laugh 😅

These are recent examples, the one saying ‘it’s being’i never got any follow up.

My mum is quite savvy but for some reason takes 'sharing' things on Facebook really seriously - if one of her friends posts a chain thing, like 'copy and paste this onto your status, don't just share - only my true friends will get it right' she goes to great lengths to try and do it correctly, including phoning me asking how to copy and paste etc!

I've tried to tell her it doesn't really matter, but we have this every few months!

My Mum is 80 and pretty good with her iPhone, she texts, phones and plays candy crush.
All was well till she discovered emoji's and uses them all the time now. I did ask why she kept sending me Poo, she said it's hershey kisses

Voice mail last week from children's grandmother: I rang and nobody answered, bugger the lot of ya!
She rang once.

These have had me crying with laughter. I'm so pleased it's not just my mum!

@missingmessages - you were on the right track, she actually meant dahlias! 😂

This has brought back happy memories of my mum's incredibly articulate texts when she was in her 70s. She was very savvy with her phone from the start (took her a while to find the space bar; "Thisismynewphonehopeyouarewellhowdoyoufindthespace") but otherwise she was as erudite as ever.

Sadly as she slipped into Alzheimer's her messages became more and more random then stopped altogether. She died 2 months ago, but I still have all her messages from when she was using a Nokia!

I love this thread!

I speak 'mum' I knew she meant dahlias 🙇🏻‍♀️

My fat fingers are bad enough but add the iPhone in and it's often complete gibberish, so I usually understand what others
Intended to write.

My mum (77) sends my messages back, replies to a text on WhatsApp or WhatsApp message on text (not the end of the world, but it makes it hard to keep a conversation going and even harder to know where to find things etc. It's all a bit of a nightmare, but I'm
Pleased we have text/WhatsApp (she lives overseas).

My dear departed mum used to use the automatic text reply thing where you select an answer rather than composing it yourself. So I'd text her and get "ANSWER IS YES" back. It was like dealing with Mystic Meg for a while.

She was absolutely brilliant with gadgets though. My parents got a smart TV and before I knew it mum was on YouTube watching videos of the Paris fashion shows

I'd ring mum on her land line to be given a row that she kept trying me on my mobile and I never answered. She wouldn't believe that I'd know from my phone and got very irritated.
Turns out she was 'ringing' from the tv remote!

My mum, early 70's is pretty good with her phone. But for a while she had it set with the confetti effect so there was a shower of it every time I opened a message from her.
This sounds awful, but my dark sense of humour made me really laugh when she text me to tell me a friend had finally passed away from a long illness, complete with confetti effect
She's managed to switch it off now!

My Dad who is late 80s has done amazingly well and mastered his smart phone! We bought him one at the start of a family holiday and then every day he did some tasks on it with my sons (sent tests, downloaded an app, used googlemaps etc). He's now pretty proficient - but he does often send me a photo of his face, always look very puzzled!

I took some delight in explaining that the aubergine emoji actually means a dick most of the time. Her face was a picture

@NavyBerry

When my mum started using Facebook whe misinterpreted the "post on your wall" button for the Search box. We all had a good laugh 😅

This has just reminded me of my auntie when she got facebook. She didn’t know how to comment on someone else’s photo so she would share it to her own wall with captions like ‘you look great, we need to catch up soon, love Jane* xx’

I'm as bad and I'm not elderly. I sent a text to the plumber asking him to message me when he was near so I could give him directions. For some reason it said can you tickle me.