To think i am NOT tech support for my parents?

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Don't get me wrong, i love my parents and i have a REALLY good relationship with them, but ever since my brother moved to the USA last year i have suddenly become Tech Support and its driving me batty.

In the last couple of months alone i've been called at stupid o'clock to try and fix my mothers laptop over the phone.. set up my dads iPod and tell him how to import CD's and buy songs.. that took 4 phonecalls and 3 visits.. and some written instructions... and work out why there TV wouldn't pick up that the DVD player was on.

sigh

I would'nt mind, only they want help now and its often with things i don't have myself so i have to fumble through the same way they would... and honestly.. trying to explain anything.. grrrr.. ITs not even like they're old.. they're only in their 50's and my dads an Engineer fgs!

• I think logic goes straight out of the window when new technology enters the house - as does the ability to follow the instructions in a manual - or even simple verbal instructions over the phone.

My Mum got a mobile phone and tries to sends texts periodically - I have no idea what she does - but because my number is the first in her contact list we get a message for each abortive attempt at a text - and our phone can't handle texts - so we get multiple automatic phone calls with a spoken message saying we can't deliver this message ! And the text was never for me anyway .

My mum does this all the time.

She'll ring me up and say " my computer's playing up at the moment" (well what do you want me to do about it?)

or

"I've bought some boots off ebay and i think they are fake [uggs] what do I do?" Er, just what I would do in this situation and check out the FAQ on the website myself. They weren't even bloody well from ebay in the end and they weren't proper uggs, they were from a website saying in big letters "warning we are not the same as the uggs"!

Phew, glad I go that off my chest!

Oh ad whenever dh and I stay at my mum's he spends an afternoon looking at her bloody computer.