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 mum's mobile seems to have a mind of its own. I've often had a call from the bottom of her handbag and I can hear change jangling around in the bottom and her muffled voice from the great beyond 😂

These are all so brilliant 😀😀

My mum (77) has an iPhone and she hates it. She's constantly locking herself out of Facebook and other apps. I kept a list of all her passwords to help her get back in which worked well until my dad (87) "helped". Now it's anybody's guess 🤦🏻‍♀️

My dad sent me a message during his early days with the mobile phone giving me someone's phone number.
His message was "Mr X's number is 123456 repeat 123456"

My parents are both early adopters of Apple products and way more tech savvy than me, but my 2yo DD has just figured out how to do selfies on my phone....

So when I look back through my photos, every few days there will be a random blurry picture of her eyebrows flanked by a couple of grubby teddy bears.

My mum is fairly good now but used to be terrible with a mobile...a typical example, I heard on the radio that there'd been a nasty accident on her route home from work, so I texted her to ask if she got home alright. After a few hours of no answer, I started to worry a bit so rang her on the landline. When she answered I asked why she didn't reply to my text....Oh I couldn't, I don't know your number!!

Mind you, dh is equally as bad with pre-emptive text and not reading before sending. A friend texted him about a large purchase he'd made and dh texted back ooooo - but instead it changed the ooooo to ploppy 😂😂

A friend was in a text conversation with the husband of the couple they were going on holiday with.

He texted to say he was speaking to the tour company and would get back to her very soon.

She texted back ' I'm waiting with bated breath' and got back a 'What?!?' from him.

Predictive text had changed her message to her waiting with bared breast...

My dm phoned me when she and her sister arrived at their hotel in Scotland the thing was she didn't hang up.
Every night she charged her phone and phoned me in the morning and again didn't hang up. After 3 days I contacted the hotel and a lovely man
on reception explained to her how to end the call.
She didn't understand about the camera either, she took over 100 photos but didn't take the lens cover off.

thank you so much.
laughter is the best medicine .
sounds rather deranged to be laughing out loud, when alone....

My DM, 79, loves her desktop and is pretty proficient.

However, I've had to teach her to communicate directly with me via messenger, not straight onto my Facebook wall for all to see.

When I was looking for a nearly new fridge, she kept posting ads for horrible knackered old ones straight onto my wall, with the sexy headlines 'going straight to the tip if not picked up today'.

Then she'd comment 'Saw this and thought of you'. Not quite the look I'm going for.

My DM doesn't have a smartphone just a easy to use one as she us quite elderly but she does have an iPad. She managed one time to message my dsis who lives abroad while she was working and had a patient with her. It was through Messenger and while sitting having a consultation she looked down and saw her DM looking back at her on her phone. She also managed to message me late one night the same but doesn't know how she has done it. She has also voice called a relative in America plus
she has sent messages in gobbledygook to different friends.

When texting really started to be a "thing" with smartphones, and after I bought her one, my mum would text...

"Dear Auquamarine,

Blah blah blah blah

Love, Mum"

Literally signing off each text as if I wouldn't know who it was from. I had to explain to her that she was one of my contacts and her name automatically came up.