What is one thing your parents will never learn?

[TwoManyKids]

Light hearted!
My mum refuses to learn the difference between the WiFi and mobile data. She runs her data down at home (messing around with settings and accidently turning off wifi) and obsessively hounds waiters/baristas for WiFi codes when we are out! I keep telling her she is paying for data and she can use it!
What is something your parents can't get their heads around?
Also She'll also hopefully never learn it was me and now my sibling who dinged the car twenty years ago!

That just because something was true 30 years ago, doesn't mean it is true now.

Late DM would never use the internet or email. She'd phone (from Australia, on Sunday mornings) and when I offered to teach her email she said what if it was urgent? she also complained about sales calls but wouldn't get an answering machine because what would happen if DB called? I said he'd either leave a message or she would hear him and could pick up. I'm sorry to say I'm glad she wasn't around during the pandemic, because she'd have exploded at the frustrations.

OTOH - she could knit beautifully, sew, cook like a dream and do woodwork. Stuff I've never learned and probably never will.

That I only tried to be vegan for a few months 30 years ago and I don’t drink that ‘funny milk’ anymore, and I can just drink the normal milk when I go home., so no, they don’t need to buy that ‘funny milk’ when I come to stay.

They are totally stuck in a time warp on this.

DF was a dream with technology, he really took to it.

DM however just won't learn, she's not interested. She will do FaceTime and Facebook because essentially she's nosey but won't even learn how to text, she's just not interested.

My mum (sadly no longer alive) never understood how I enjoyed running. I wish I'd learned how to walk properly on heels- she wore them all the time - even to the park 😳 but I live in trainers or flip flops!

I'm not going to complain about any of her tech skills - or lack of - because my own (teen) DC roll their eyes at me when I type on my phone with my index finger and ask for reminders how to post on Instagram! 😄

That you don't have to delete important emails and delete your text, WhatsApp and messenger messages immediately like it's taking up actual space.
She'll send a message and immediately Marie Kondo that shit.

She does it on WhatsApp and would complain that I couldn't reply but it's because I had no idea what she had sent. It was deleted before I could see it. She knows this but will still do it.

She will also moan that she can't remember what her phone, utilities, Sky tv, isp said was happening with her accounts because she deletes the emails she needed us to check for her.

I've told her to leave everything and delete after a month or so or until she is positive it's not needed but it's a lesson she refuses to learn. She's not old and she is relatively intelligent (even if she does believe wives tales bollocks like Lemsip is just microwaved lemonade with a paracetamol, or that the kids can't drink milkshakes on hot days because it'll curdle in their stomachs).

That if someone shares a GIF, they have not shared a recently taken a video of a person that we know. This should stand to reason, given my eleven year old son is not personally acquainted with either Zelensky, Dave Grohl or Nora Batty!

My mum has an iPhone and uses Facebook and online banking but will never order online. She will send the money to my bank account for me to order because she knows I have no money so it can't be stolen.

That socks and sandals is

On the other hand my MIL has never used a cash machine or sent a text.

Posted too soon - sock and sandals is not a good look...

I've given up telling my dad that now. Ditto speedos on holiday.

Social media etiquette, she takes things VERY personally on there. If a cousin of mine didn't like one of my photos she would assume we had fallen out, she expects me and my brother to like every post of each other's or it's some kind of personal insult. Thank goodness she's off now, she freely admits she doesn't "get it". I've given her a hard steer from online dating!!!

(Late 50s)

@Toddlerteaplease you could ask him the same question although probably best not stand next to him when you ask him!

My mum is dead now but refused to ever use a computer!!! Luckily my dad is technically minded and has always engaged in new technology- he bought me my first mobile phone in the 90s when I couldn't see the point of one!! Despite this, he has only just realised the benefit of using WhatsApp for a family group chat.

To my DF cutting corners on everything is not always the best way to do things. Cue hobby equipment breaks - stop trying to fix it yourself you have the money to get it done properly.

To DM all your stories rehashed from my sisters; I've heard them. I talk to my sisters I know what's been going on. And every-time one of my children/DH/Ddog enters the room we don't need to hear it all again.

That bills can be paid online in an instant. She can’t get her head round it and draws out cash and go to the post office to pay them, doesn’t even use her card.
also that there isn’t a television licence radar spy van and that they never existed and it was a big lie. She’s still convinced that if she doesn’t pay her license they’ll be round with ‘the van’ and know she’s watching it.

Ha! I’m pretty tech savvy but always like important stuff like plane tickets printed out

you never know when your phone is going to be lost or die

My mother just can’t get that there is a subtle difference between text, Facebook messenger and WhatsApp.

she also just can’t operate our oven (makes tea for the DCs once a week). You have to turn the notch one click to the left. That’s literally it.

My mum won't learn anything to do with computers or technology. She can't even use a cashpoint or mobile phone.

She is very stuck in her ways and hasn't moved on with the times, She is scandalised that her neighbours are not married and mentions it every time I visit.

That the point of a mobile phone is that it’s mobile. You take it with you from room to room, not leave it in the kitchen and have to get up every time you hear a message come in.

I hope I never learn to do this.

That posts on her fb newsfeed are not direct messages
'David and Lily are having a baby!' said like one of them personally told her that when she's just read it on their status with 500 other people

Socks and sandals absolutely rule. Comfort from multiple angles.

There's nothing my Mum couldn't learn and I felt most of her preferences made total sense, eg preferring to phone businesses rather than email them, you usually get a better response. She didn't much like Internet banking and billpaying but would use direct debits. Not her fault that banks can't wait to close branches and cut local jobs so that our economy is dependent on Californian tech billionaires who couldn't give a shit.

My dad was a total early adopter who loved tech. He got caught by online scammers in about 2005 and died 14 years later still in their clutches and embezzling friends to give them money.

That you don't get inside the duvet cover with the duvet. Only discovered about a week before DF died that he had been doing that for decades. He was truly astonished and never fully accepted it; "are you sure??"
At least he didn't try to do the buttons up.

Oh another one

my dm is absolutely convinced that half filling the car with petrol, and then doing so again a few days later, is cheaper than filling it up completely the first time. I suppose when fuel prices are edging down slightly she may be technically correct but she wouldn’t know how much a litre of fuel is anyway.