North Coast School Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I taught my MIL to text in hopes that it would cut down on the annoying calls I get from her every day. (Can you help me understand Shutterfly? How do you cook a chicken on the grill? What size pants does DD wear?) So now she sends a text. Then calls me to let me know she sent a text. Then has my FIL call my DH to let him know that she sent me a text and would I check it please... :confused1: :cursing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 :lol: Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 HAHAHAHAH!!!! Thats hilarious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llifeon18wheels Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Hahahahhahahaha Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 It doesn't get better with time. :( My Mum sends a text, then emails to tell me there is a text, then phones if she doesn't get a response in five minutes. She also can't figure out who she is sending the text to, so I get texts meant for a friend of hers all the time. She has been texting unsuccessfully for four years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not quite the same but, sometimes dh will email me something. I don't happen to check my email and when we see each other he will ask, "did you get my email". When I respond that I didn't and ask what it is about he will sometimes say, "well you will have to check it and see." so I get up go over to the computer, .l.. And finally look at the email to see it was a picture of a cat with the tag line, "you are cute." Um, you could have just told me the content dear dh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in IN Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I'm sorry to say that I just laughed out loud. :lol: That is completely hilarious...and maddening. I'm so sorry for you! Hopefully (fingers crossed!) once she figures it out she will stop doing both??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 So, maybe it's time to introduce her to Google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Jen Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 So, maybe it's time to introduce her to Google? According to my FIL its- The Google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyontheFarm Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Introduce her to Pinterest. Maybe she'll get lost in there like my sister. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Can you set up an automated response? "Ekmom has received your text and will get back to you in the order in which it was received. Additional texts, emails, calls, or other communication will only delay your reply. Thank you and have a great day!" My mom used to call our house and not leave a message, call my cell and not leave a message, call DH's cell, then call back to our house and leave a message saying she was going to try my cell again. She's not even 60 yet!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotherOfBoys Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I showed my mil pinterest. Everyone thanks me because she stopped spending so much money on qvc. Now she has a board for every fantasy life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 According to my FIL its- The Google Ha. Sounds like my granddad, who shops at The Walmarts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 :D Too funny!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalLynn Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I think some people don't realize that just because they have sent you an email or text or left a phone message it doesn't mean they are owed an immediate reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I taught my MIL to text in hopes that it would cut down on the annoying calls I get from her every day. (Can you help me understand Shutterfly? How do you cook a chicken on the grill? What size pants does DD wear?) So now she sends a text. Then calls me to let me know she sent a text. Then has my FIL call my DH to let him know that she sent me a text and would I check it please... :confused1: :cursing: :lol: :lol: :lol: I know this is annoying you and I do sympathize, but as soon as I read it I wished I wrote scripts for television. This is such a great gag for a sit com! You could keep it running as a side story/funny for the whole series in lots of variations.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 That's hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabinfl Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I once had a boss who sat in a cubicle directly across the aisle from me. He would send me email, then print a copy, walk down to the printer at the end of the hall, walk back to my desk, and hand me the printout "just to make sure you saw this." I'd have thought it was some sort of elaborate joke if he wasn't so clueless in other areas as well. My mother used to be one of the call-and-don't-leave-a-message types, then she'd get upset that I didn't call her back... before widespread caller ID. Now that everyone has caller ID, she leaves a message and emails me the same thing. @@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 My Mom does that with emails. Email. If no response in 5 minutes, call to tell me she emailed. If she thinks I didn't get it, she has been known to print it out and send it snail mail. I feel your pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julpost Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 That is really funny!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyontheFarm Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 My grandmother had 2 four drawer filing cabinets filled with funny jokes, stories and useful tips. She was convinced the internet was going to go down and she just had to have all this saved for future use! She even had a system for how it was all filed! When she had to move to assisted living, she just about had a fit because her boys were taking it all out of her apartment. To the trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Y'all are hilarious! All my mom does is cut-and-paste grammatical mistakes she finds on the internet. She follows the Jon&Kate+8 stuff, so there are always plenty of people who use there/they're/their wrong. Last time she tried to show me her file, it was 20 pages long. :crying: But she still has time to try to run the lives of all her kids, so it can't be too time consuming of a hobby... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama27 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 UGH! I sympathize with you and I don't think it's funny!! That would make me crazy!!! FTR, both my parents live with me so that's probably why it's not funny to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmith Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 That is hilarious! And this is why we haven't show MIL how to text, lol. She would do the same, except first she would call us from a separate phone to walk her through texting us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plmzk Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Can you set up an automated response? "Ekmom has received your text and will get back to you in the order in which it was received. Additional texts, emails, calls, or other communication will only delay your reply. Thank you and have a great day!" THIS is hilarious!!! :hurray: :lol: I wish could use this on DH. :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konglish Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 These are so funny, and I can't believe they are true. My in-laws are on the opposite end of the spectrum...there is nothing too big to not tell us. Last year we found out my FIL was in Israel for several weeks with a church we didn't know he attended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 These are so funny, and I can't believe they are true. My in-laws are on the opposite end of the spectrum...there is nothing too big to not tell us. Last year we found out my FIL was in Israel for several weeks with a church we didn't know he attended. Once when I was an early teen we went to visit my grandfather who was living several hours away. When we arrived we were greeted by a woman named June who knew all about us and Grandfather didn't show up till two hours later. Turns out he had moved I with her and had been living with her for over a year and he didn't bother mentioning it. Same thing happened years later. When he was dieing there was concern over his stuff (June was a lovely person and we hoped she would get it instead of his poopy previous exwife) When my dad brought it up grandfather said, "no worries I married my June years ago, I guess I forgot to mention it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 These are so funny, and I can't believe they are true. My in-laws are on the opposite end of the spectrum...there is nothing too big to not tell us. Last year we found out my FIL was in Israel for several weeks with a church we didn't know he attended. We had one like that once. We didn't know Grandpa had gone to Kakadu with the Jehovah's Witnesses until we got a postcard saying the goannas were as big as dogs. :lol: Oh Julie, that's hilarious! And absolutely the sort of thing my brother might do if he were the marrying kind. Mum'd kill him. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 My mom used to say "How do I get rid of KDE"? when she meant "How do I make the start menu go back down?" I was so tempted to say "sudo apt-get --purge remove KDE" and then, "Well, you TOLD me you didn't want a GUI!" My parents are the type who'll tell me how tragic it is when the grocery store runs out of their pets' favourite brand of kibble but not mention than they have pneumonia or that their cancer is out of remission. I love them dearly, but they drive me nuts. I've got one of each: technophobe who still uses cassette tapes and hates her PC and technophile who bumbles around on the internet like a bull in a china shop posting my kids' pictures and personal info all over Facebook. I am so incredibly grateful that the neighbour's kid already "switched [Mom] back to Lennock's" when her WinXP install got a pwned by a botnet and Dad bought an iPad "just like the one on 2001: a Space Odyssey" instead of upgrading the RAM in his laptop like I told him to or I'd be in major crisis mode about 4/8! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I once had a boss who sat in a cubicle directly across the aisle from me. He would send me email, then print a copy, walk down to the printer at the end of the hall, walk back to my desk, and hand me the printout "just to make sure you saw this." I'd have thought it was some sort of elaborate joke if he wasn't so clueless in other areas as well. One of my very first bosses, many years ago, used to call his desktop computer "the tellie and typewriter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Sorry, but :smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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