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Do your parents have a smartphone?
How about grandma or grandpa?
There’s something special that happens when you mix new technology with an older generation…
Here are humorous texts from parents…
Have you ever had this happen to you?
I am sad to say that I am closer to being one of these parents than I care to admit… 😛
Eric Dye
Support Lead at Valet, and Proprietor of DYECASTING. Human by day, gamer at night, lover of coffee, and all things spicy.
Hilarious!
Seriously.
Sipping espresso in Italy? Dear god. SMH
Not hard to do when you—well—livein Italy.
I laughed so hard, I went into an asthma attack!!
LOL
Lots of Love
^THIS^
if I didn’t know any better, I’d
think my son and daughter wrote these for me, hahahahah
I stomach hurts from laughing as I’m in the Grandmother boat and I know my kids and family have gotten many OMG out of my conversations. Love to all……!or LTA
What does LTA mean?
LTA= Love to all
Fun – but got nothing to do with age – plain stupid people! /FYI GrandMa LOL
you do realize these are made up? jokes. or ur too old to see that ;D
LOL YOU’RE made up. 😛
NO – you are.
Really? There is money in writing this BS?
Not jokes. My Mum used to write her texts without any punctuation until she found out where the full stop was! Now I can breathe when reading her texts.
“My Mum used to write her texts without any punctuation until she found out where the full stop was! Now I can breathe when reading her texts.”
I literally laughed out loud, until tears streamed down my face. I could imagine reading her texts before she found punctuation, would’ve been about like trying to read the title of the famous song, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” – from Mary Poppins.
LOL That’s awesome. 😀
Just because we haven’t learned something doesn’t make us stupid.
Seriously. I agree, Maggie, a foolish statement.
Agreed! “Stupid” is unintelligent, as in CALLING people stupid when they have not been educated in a certain subject or task. Hmmmm……hopefully Angelique could become “less stupid” with age.
Some of the most “educated” people I know say the most stupid things of all.
Great article! Where did you come up with the idea?
I wish I had found these first, but as I linked in the article, you’ll find more of these awesome texts here. Glad you enjoyed these, Dave! 🙂
hilarious! Have experienced most of them with my folks!!
Parents these days are not as dumb as you think…
Considering that I am one, I wholeheartedly agree. Not all parents, however, are nearly as nimble when it comes to technology. It’s good not to take ourselves TOO seriously. 😉
unfortunately i found the one where the mother text about a death and put lol on it even though if it really happened a lot of people would have been pissed but it was still funny as lol
Reminds me of my mom!! She still doesn’t understand how to “download” pictures from “the Firefox” onto her phone, or that she can’t install all her PC games on her tablet. She doesn’t have Angry Birds, Cut the Rope or any other typical smartphone games but she has eight different Solitaire games!!
LOL So true. I can’t imagine how all of us growing up on this stuff will be when WE’RE this old! LOL!
love these!!
When my dad first got a mobile his text alert would sound and he eoukd say hang on I’ve got a fax coming through !!! No dad you haven’t lol
LOL “I’ve got a fax coming through!”
Very funny.
Very hilarious 😀
Ah, yes. Good fun. 🙂
When my mum is talking about a website, she’s always like: ‘The double u double u double u is …’ or ‘does that company have a double u double u double u?’ :”’)
ITS CALLED WEBSITE, MUM !! Oh. Yeah.
LOL
Massachusetts lol
Well, I think the parents do well by just turning them on. Now if we used them from childhood you would have professionals on your hands. That’s my story and (as a parent) I’m sticking to it.
True story.
Made up
What gave it away?
Relate so well to this! I am going to be honest for I am one of those Moms!
And you, Peena, are awesome. 😀
Too funny. Reminds me when fax machines first came out. I was showing my employee how to use it and she said to put a note on the letter that we needed it back because it was the only copy we had! Ah good times!!
LOL That’s awesome. 😀
this has really cracked me up I have tear on my cheeks laughing so much
We are not stupid. .we just didn’t grow up with this stuff like u kids did..
I like the one where the mom sends multiple
directions to the son..
Call the Dr.
take out the dog
eat your vegetables
I’m Buying you a house. .
To see if their reading them. .
I’ve done that..lol
Stupid? No way! This technology is built on generations of technological geniuses!
Hahaha! “Dad is dead, your next, love moth” I love that one!!
A very good one.
Yeah well done. Another post on ‘let’s laugh at the old people because they’re not very good at technology’. How very ageist. I know lots of olds who not only can text, they can program too – better than you no doubt.
You know lots of ‘olds’? What an ‘ageist’ kind of thing to say… :shakes head: 😉
Great reply Eric! 😀
LOL Thanks. 🙂
I’m an Olds and it made me laugh. I think us Olds are better at not taking things so seriosly and being able to laugh at ourselves. Thanks for caring but it’s just a joke and it’s ok. 🙂
I think that comes with age, Terri. Thank you for being awesome. 🙂
Wow! Amazing post by an amazing blogger. By taking readily available images from google, you’ve complied them into a singular place, making them much more accessible to see and laugh about. Because this post hasn’t been done before -_-
And you clicked.
Thank you. Couldn’t have done it without you. 😉
Eric!!! You almost made me LOL. Luckily I managed to forego the OL, especially since I’m 11-1/2 months into a one-year vow of silence. http://www.theSILENTproject.com
Very very clever blog. Thank you for the laughter!
Funny stuff
For real.
Thank for very funny sharing.
You’re very welcome. 🙂
Accept it for what it is, a bit of fun. There’s little enough to laugh at in this world.
That’s for sure!
Thanks for that good laugh! I think it is so close to home! That one cant help but laugh! It’s a jouney in life! And we all on the same jouney. And its health to have a good llaugh. Keep on doing it!
Thanks, Alice. 🙂
This is for real, when I got my first mobile i went out to the garden trying to get the dialling code. I ended up calling my son on the house phone. He couldn’t speak to me for laughing…….
Thank you for making my day.
You’re very welcome. 🙂
I relate to these so well, my mom is 73 and drives me crazy with her Facebook page, but I love it that she is staying up to date with the grandkids. I myself am an idiot when it comes to technology, I phone my husband to help me to “fix” the new phone. To change the ring tone and that does NOT make me stupid, I am friggin great at other things but simply don’t have the need or desire to figure this out. There are things we can do that our kids don’t know – like work the darn dishwasher! Excellent piece, you made my morning!
LOL You’re awesome, Zendi. 🙂
I’m not far off & I’m 26! To the person who said it’s stupid people, I’m a mechanical engineer & my mom had to show me how to send a whatsapp message off her phone the other day! My daughter, who is 4 years old showed me how to get to the photos on my moms phone! It’s not stupidity, as that lady put so well, it’s just not their world…yet 🙂
I Laughed so hard I literally had tears running down my cheeks! Even clicked on the your link for more!!
LOL Awesome! Great story. 😀
I thought they were hilarious, as I’m home in bed with the flu. Who cares if they are made up or not? We all have stories! When my husband and I finally got a smart phone he would try this texting thing out. My youngest posted on Facebook (which Dad is not on but I am) “it’s so cute, my Dad just started texting, and he signs all his texts ‘from Dad'”!
I’m an OLDS and this was freaking great.
‘OLDS’—LOL
Loved it! So close to home, but I must admit our “techie” in a church I served was 80 years old. He was great!
When I got my first cell phone, I couldn’t figure out how to answer it
Had to ask someone.
Where is degree sign on iphone? Young at heart, but still learning
Keep it up!
What happened to the comment I made earlier?
It’s above this comment. 🙂
I would like to think i am not one of these parents…. Until hubby remindede about the time we got our first DVD player and spent half an hour trying to work out how to ‘rewind’ the disc before we returned it to the rental shop
That’s pretty awesome. 😀
Love a good laugh – now – someone has to explain to me the last message about “Massachusetts” I figure it was a spell check thing, but what was the reply supposed to be? See – the challenges continue, even as we laugh!
Happy we’re in the same boat. I didn’t understand the Massachusetts post, either.
I didn’t understand the Massachuetts either but I wrote this comment all by myself. Hope the explanation is as funny as all the rest of your quotes. I’m 71 and love my iPad I received for Christmas
What is moderation???
i make up my own things like lol, rotfl. (Forgot what you call those, lol! Anyway, it makes my daughter (age 25) crazy! She says, mom, you can’t do that! i say, watch me! She says, mom, no one understands those you make up! Well that’s what she gets for making fun of her mother! Lol!
LOL
As an old person – The problem is predictive text and premature sending cos the delete button is right next to send! Couple this with arthritic digits, short attention and crap memory YOU ARE BOUND TO BRIGHTEN SOMEONES DAY ((Sorry I didn’t mean yo shout!!!!!))
‘Didn’t mean to shout’ — LOL So funny. 🙂
Thanks for sharing these! I’m in my mid-forties and just got my first smartphone a couple of months ago. I may not be as bad as some of these examples but I’m definitely technologically-challenged, and I have no problem with laughing at myself for not understanding. Have a great day!!!
You, too! 😀
My boss asked me to answer his phone whilst he was in a meeting and said to answer it all I had to do was press any button, obviously I pressed to off button! Once he switched it on again I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying, until he turned it round the right way ;-). I managed to hold on to my job until retirement, I think it was just cause I made him laugh. Kath x
LOL That’s funny.
My daughter sent me this and I laughed until I cried. Very funny. I am over seventy and love my iPad and have only learned some of the through some of these situations. Thanks
You’re very welcome. 🙂
very nice njoyed lot!!! u made my day!!!
Great to hear! 😀
Hey mum, how’s your iPad going? Yeah it’s ok but I think I need to get some abs. Hahahaha love you mum
LOL
smart phones in the the hand of notsosmart people.
My BF got his first Smart Phone last week, he returned it the next day siting Stupid Operator does not want to be be dumber than the phone.
‘notsosmart’ people—LOL
At first I also thought lol was lots of love. I am a grandmother who would rather use the phone, but must learn to text if I want to connect with the younger generation. I was lol at the above. Thank you.
Glad to spread the LOLz. 😉
When a friend in her 60s first got a mobile phone I used to text her with the odd LOL. It wasn’t until quite some time later that I found out she thought I was calling her ‘little old lady’. I was gutted!
LOL That’s funny. 😀
I have worked in IT for over 30 years, everything is relative – my dad (aged 84) who uses Facebook a little but sends emails and does internet banking thinks I am a genius, my Support people think I am an idiot, and my friends ask me to come and fix their problems. I provide technical sales expertise for software but it took me quite a while to work out that LOL didn’t mean lots of love.
I still fix issues for my kids and when my daughter was a teenager she was very upset when she realised I could look at all her searching history… My comment to her then was .. There are advantages of having a mum working in IT like fast broadband, great network and the latest equipment – the disadvantage is that I WILL know what you are doing…
I still find challenges however and I have not got my head around Apple TV… But hey learning new things keeps you young…
Sounds like you’re a really awesome Mum. 🙂
Hahaha
is it not sad that laugh out loud has a shortform but lots of love does no. is there another similar greeting that would do the job?
Jane commented that she “laughed so hard the tears ran down her cheeks.” I want her to know that at my age (82), the tears run down my legs. Great posts. Thanks for the fun read.
That’s a lot of tears! 😀
Igottextslikethisfrommydadformonths … until he found the space bar. LOL
AMAZING! LOL
Thanks Eric, great fun~ made my day , and it’s only 05.40 !!!!
LYMF
(Love You My Friend! !)
WOOT! 😀
It was the day after Catlin Jenner was all over the news & fresh in everyone’s mind & I texted my son ” I am okay but I had a gender bender in the grocery store parking lot ” luckily I caught it just after i sent it & was quickly able to add ” fender fender …fender bender , don’t worry i am still your mom.?”
Fun, funny, great.
…. My sister texted me ” how long will you be ?”
I thought I said 7 or eight minutes…..
I ended up sending… ” I’m being inseminated”