Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 03, 2014
August 02, 2014
August 04, 2014
Transcript:
Mom and Dad: We dreamed of an "instruction-free" vacation. It took us 57 tries over a ten-day period to buy plane tickets. Telephone: Press the pound key after your four-digit pin before your 16-digit located after your 35-digit member code. Both: Then we hit the self-serve e-ticket check in. The rental car had an electronic navigational system which insulted us in a foreigh language after our 26-minute effort to start the computerized ignition. Computer: Idiotas! Both: We couldn't open the door to our room. Arrow up! no. Arrow down! No. Arrow up! We also couldn't make a call, hear a message or adjust the air conditioner. Then we tried to turn on the TV. To access the option menu, press the select function. Etc. Etc. Etc. Mom: Isn't there anyplace left where lessons aren't required?? Dad: Please send a manual on how to get there.
Ragtime78rpm over 10 years ago
Don’t they realize how easy life is with all those electronic improvements?
Yesterday, Mom seemed to have the digital thing down pretty well.
summerdog86 over 10 years ago
When you are older and haven’t faced that sort of “future-isms” when out and about before, it can be confusing. And DON"T loose those reading glasses! or your sense of humor.
Loijen over 10 years ago
Well good … I don’t have to save up for traveling anymore!
rgcviper over 10 years ago
Technology’s something, ain’t it?
HI, MOM. Happy Sunday, “Cathy” Clan.
hendelca Premium Member over 10 years ago
I don’t even need to go on a vacation to feel this kind of frustration – I develop software for a living but still get frustrated with the non-intuitive user interface on iPads and smart phones (I have a dumb cell phone but my wife just bought a smartphone and keeps asking me how to do things on it – won’t believe I really don’t know how. That and having to find my eyes to read the small screens!
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
I like the one about the rental car…I rented one last year for a 16-day stay at a cousin’s house and NEVER DID figure out the computer panel for the radio! Tapped every symbol I could…and made the mistake of wiping the screen because of the dust on it. Of course, it would have Helped if the rental car company had included the driver’s manual… Hope everyone had a restful Sunday! ;)