Parents
are the bane of the computing world.
I've actually printed this out
https://xkcd.com/627/
and given a copy to my mother. Sadly it was a long slow process getting her far enough to use that. I remember when we got our first PC, I was about... 8 or 9? Mum spent several days trying to use the PC with the manual etc, didn't get too far, within the first half hour I was using it to a higher competence than her.
It took so long just to teach basic things.
"Double click the icon"
"I am, it isn't working!"
"Are you double clicking quickly, or are you just going click... click"
"Does it make a difference?"
"... double click quickly"
"Oh now it's working"
It also took me a long time to convince her that turning it off at the plug socket wouldn't reformat the computer. She was actually afraid that if it was ever unplugged she'd lose all the data on the PC.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
