Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

Joesoap
I’m very sorry for what has happened to you. We have been contacted twice by our bank when our cards were being scammed. Both in French supermarkets.
We have also been contacted by the bank when we were buying diesel in Albania and a Serbia

Alexa sometimes lights up without being asked and will occasionally say something.
It's very spooky if you're just leaving the room at bedtime, turned off all the lights and she suddenly lights up and speaks to a quiet, darkened room.

My daughter set up Alexa for me. Once it's plugged into the mains you don't touch it, you just ask it questions or just say "Alexa, play radio 2" (or whatever station you want), when finished say 'alexa stop'.

greenlady102

Calendargirl

greenlady102

nothing...and If I wanted to know how to do something I would go online and find out

Is there a ‘smug’ emoji?

no but there should be a big girl knickers one

Not sure where to buy big girls' knickers and how they are sized can you get them online? If I could have the circumference of your head they are sure to fit.

I think I just carried on looking at things, humming away and ignoring her until she got fed up

Callistemon21

Urmstongran

Callistemon21

We couldn't put the pushchair up in the first place the first time we attempted to take a little DGC for a walk.
It seemed ok but it kept folding in on her so we gave up on the idea.

Prams were so much easier.

Properly giggled at this Calli! ?

Luckily she was ok

Those MacLaren buggies were easier too.
Except when DD was in it; she would stretch out, stiff as a board with feet on the ground, so it was impossible to push, usually in the middle of a department store!

I’d have turned it around and pulled it behind me, that would have flummoxed her ?

FannyCornforth

Thank you Callistemon and Gill
I do like the sound of an induction course to reacquaint me.
Line them up …??? ?

Lunch included!

Talking about not knowing what to do these days, last week a scammer emptied my savings acount, bad enought, but I always use a card to pay for anything, so now no card, no access to anything, I feel I should go back to cash! my new card hopefully will arrive before Easter.
I feel shattered and cheated, somebody had a shoping spree with MY money in a shopping centre in Rotterdam of all places, we live in Sweden! I now dont trust anyone.

Kim19

Welbeck, thanks. I'll just do that very thing with the bike. I actually believed it was a skill that was retained but have since heard from a scientist friend that balance frequently deteriorates with maturity. As if we didn't have enough to contend with!

I remember a tv programme telling us to practice balancing on one leg regularly as we get older, then try it with your eyes closed! Make sure you have something to grab onto if you wobble,and you probably will.

MissAdventure

I once came home from the wilds of scotland on a series of buses and trains, and I think I only made it because a kindly woman told me to pull myself together and go and ask the guard where I needed to go, instead of sitting against a wall,. hyperventilating

Oh Miss A your posts are making me laugh. Well everybody’s are but yours even more so. I love the railway station one and the dustpan and brush one.

You are spot on there OakDryad
I will do. Thank you
I still have my older TV and a fire stick in case of emergency.
But I’ll probably forgotten how to use it, and have lost the remote to boot

FannyCornforth

Good heavens OakDryad, no way am I turning off my router!

That really would be tempting fate!

Without WiFi I am nothing!

To quote the great man Mr Loaf;
I would do anything for GN, but I won’t do that

OK, but you might ask Sky what your viewing options will be on Glass IF your broadband fails and you feel you need some kind of backup.

Sorry to say?but you might need an APP for that too ?

Calendargirl

greenlady102

nothing...and If I wanted to know how to do something I would go online and find out

Is there a ‘smug’ emoji?

no but there should be a big girl knickers one

Chewbacca

With your finger on the screen MissAdventure! Your signature will look nothing like your real one; more of a squiggle!

Thank you x

MissAdventure

I also get emails which need to be signed and returned.
How the hell am I supposed to "sign" an email on a mobile phone?

I want to know that too.

Thank you Callistemon and Gill
I do like the sound of an induction course to reacquaint me.
Line them up …??? ?

FannyCornforth

I have hardly left the house for two years.
I was talking to my dad yesterday, and I realised that I have almost forgotten how to go to the pub.
This was an incredibly shocking realisation

That's shocking! The pub bit of course. If you lived near me I would be happy to sort out an induction course of 6 lessons involving ordering drinks.

Good heavens OakDryad, no way am I turning off my router!

That really would be tempting fate!

Without WiFi I am nothing!

To quote the great man Mr Loaf;
I would do anything for GN, but I won’t do that

I struggle less with technology (YouTube is very helpful if you are in a bind) but things that need physical energy are harder. I can't open jars easily and the jar opener seems to be beyond me. I am finding it difficult with the last box of paracetamol to even get them out of the foil...they appear to have plastic in the foil which means that I've crushed the capsule before it comes out of its packet. Medicine caps are great to protect kids but I need a helper to get them open. Agh!

Lynne H, Sky Glass and the accompanying "Pucks" are completely reliant on broadband, so if you lose your internet connection you will lose the ability to watch the vast majority of Sky services. However, I read that the Glass system does include a digital TV tuner so (one review said) you can at least continue to watch something. How that happens, I don't know. Presumably you must still have the means to receive digital terrestial services via an aerial or freesat receiver.

I had a very poor and therefore very short experience of Sky Q. It blocked my ability to watch Freeview channels independently of Sky - something that had not been an issue with Sky+. When I called Sky for technical help on this they said yes, Sky Q blocked access to digital terrestial TV via Freeview so I'd be interested to know what services can be received on Sky Glass in the event of a broadband failure. Maybe you could switch off your broadband route FannyC to test it out and let us know.

Before anyone asks why I would still want access to Freeview if I had Sky Q, it happened when I was recording the maximum number of channels allowed on Sky Q (three on a ITB box) and wanted to watch a fourth.

FannyCornforth

I have hardly left the house for two years.
I was talking to my dad yesterday, and I realised that I have almost forgotten how to go to the pub.
This was an incredibly shocking realisation

Oh dear, FannyCornforth that is indeed shocking.

You need a posse of Gransnetters to come along and take you out for lunch.

DH was trying to pay for his car tax online this morning and it kept rejecting his payment card at the end. "You must be doing something wrong, you move over, I'll sort it" I said confidently.

No, it wouldn't accept the card again
So he phoned and it went through no trouble (same card).

Growing0ldDisgracefully

I get the puzzled by job application situation but from the other side. Back in the days I felt I understood what was going on, myself and a Co-manager and HR would get ad advert in the post, short-list and set questions pertinent to the post to be filled. Then, our organisation was 'assimilated' into the civil service.... The short listing still fell to us to do locally, but the questions we had to ask weren't about the vacant post, but were about 'competencies' at which point I lost all competence in interviewing. We weren't allowed to ask if someone could use a spreadsheet, for instance, but had to ask questions which resulted in candidates telling us about jobs they'd done about the house such as fitting kitchen cabinets.... Or their experience as bar staff.. None of which related to what we needed to know. I decided it was time I retired due to the many strange changes to the way we had to work.
I also struggle with catching a bus (not that they have any reliability or feasibility where I live) - apparently there is a (very unreliable) app to check times, and when you get on the bus you're expected to pay by card? And apparently you don't tap the card on the card machine, it had to be placed and left on the payment machine? Give me a my car, which is not keyless, any day!

Oh my God, the competency based application forms. They take about a week to fill in, and many could probably win the Nobel prize for fiction.

I have hardly left the house for two years.
I was talking to my dad yesterday, and I realised that I have almost forgotten how to go to the pub.
This was an incredibly shocking realisation