Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

My phone freezes if asked to do anything too complicated.
I expect one day it'll just give up the ghost and switch itself off for good.

Where do I begin ??

My newer car is way more sophisticated that me or my previous little i10.
There are so many gismos that are a mystery to me, despite reading the handbook. I’m just hoping that they’re superfluous to everyday driving around ?
The salesman did patiently spend 2 hours explaining it all but much of that went in one ear and out of the other!
The fact that several GNers have driven away without the key fob is something I must remember, though at the moment DH isn’t driving.

I can't use my thumbs to type and use a stylus so any mistakes are not my own.

I wish car parks with number plate recognition would allow a 'close enough' when I input my number. DH and I have lots of similar letters (but not in the same places);on our cars.

Then I saw a couple go to put their number in and they had taken a photo of the plate so they didn't have to guess.

Vintagejazz

Booking theatre tickets. You used to just ring the box office, book your tickets and collect and pay for them on the night. Now you have to register on a website, remember your password from last time, key in your visa details, print off the ticket and probably pay a fee as well.
If you do ring the box office you have to press button this and that and then speak loudly to a machine and then probably get cut off.

You don't need to print them off just save them to your documents on your phone or to your apple wallet of your Google pay?

Sara1954

Bluebelle
I once had to ring my daughter when I got to school, because I couldn’t put the pushchair back down. I tried to force it into the back, I contemplated taking it back into the school and asking them to keep it till the next day. My daughters instructions, something like, twist this while pushing that, simultaneously releasing a lever, were useless. I felt like sitting in the road and crying.
Eventually between the two older children and myself, we managed it, but I was straight off to John Lewis at the weekend, to buy a lovely simple to operate pushchair.

Oh yes, I thought my little GS would have to spend the night in his pushchair as no way could I undo the harness/belt thing.
I eventually found a young mum neighbour who did it for me!
Mind you, once open, could I do it up again?

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.

I paid a cheque in our n my phone yesterday...proper proud of myself. It was from WI I think Bacs is beyond the treasurer at the mo.

DH has asked me to teach him how to switch on the tv and use the video recorder. We have only had the new tv and video 3 years ?! If I go out in the evening without DH I have to leave the telly on News24. He has learned to switch it off.

I can’t change a tyre on the car which he can.

Audi10

Well I don’t know how to get the blooming voice off our sky Q, I didn’t put her on, every blooming programme she spoils talking over the storyline! “ she turns her head slowly tilts head and gives a coy smile” etc etc! Enough to make a parson swear!

Press the ? on the remote and the instructions are at the bottom of the screen.

I'm very proud to say I can use my mobile phone for parking

Well that flummoxed me to start with! I thought ‘what?’. I even in a nanosecond wondered if your mobile had some sort of sensor? I thought perhaps you put it on the dashboard or something?

Shows how absolutely dim I am! Then I read on and had to laugh at myself.

I’m loving these everyone. Best giggle I’ve had in ages.

BTW I didn’t think MerylStreep was being anything other than kind. She’s right. Take your time, drop your shoulders from your ears - and breathe....

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! ?

Using the mobile phone for parking - it sits in the seat next to you, saying "come on! you could fit a tank in that gap. No! Left a bit, careful!! Sharp right, pull the wheel right round... oh my god....."

MissA ????????

Has my husband been telling you how to park, MissA (when you were already making a good job of it) ?

greenlady102

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

What would you do if your Kindle would not come on and all the instructions on how to turn it on were on the Kindle no printed instructions ?
We can all feel cleaver and complacent until something happens to us personally and we realise we are not in charge of the situation as we would have been.

We have to book and pay for our Pilates class via an app and I just can’t remember how to use it. Fortunately the instructor takes pity on me.
Personally, I don’t think it’s a very good app…..?

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!

My bank in France has insisted to have their app. on my phone to go paperless. They then told me my phone was too old.
I asked her, the manager, what will happen to the bank when some country decides to block Satellites. She looked at me as if I was mad.

Just for the record, I didn`t find Merylstreep at all patronising.

Expecting you to order in a café or restaurant with your phone is just not right! I haven't come across that but I would leave my phone in my bag and say I didn't have one. What can they do, refuse to serve you? You should be able to give your order at the table or the counter and pay by card.

LOUISA1523

Vintagejazz

Booking theatre tickets. You used to just ring the box office, book your tickets and collect and pay for them on the night. Now you have to register on a website, remember your password from last time, key in your visa details, print off the ticket and probably pay a fee as well.
If you do ring the box office you have to press button this and that and then speak loudly to a machine and then probably get cut off.

You don't need to print them off just save them to your documents on your phone or to your apple wallet of your Google pay?

i used to go to a travel agents to purchse theatre and concert tickets.
i couldn't cope with all the rigmarole nowadays; just as well i don't go anywhere now.

Yammy I would "google" my kindle won't switch on.

Yammy plug it in to get a full charge. That might help.