Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

I'd got to grips with tv and even netflix etc then my son's bought me a stick just so i can put disney plus on big tv- wish he had'nt- its now another remote to learn, or lose!?

I know what the QR codes are for- but wont download the code reader as ive not enough space left for things i dont use often.

Oh I’m seriously impressed by this lol. Recently updated from one smart tv to one with better sound and the whole process was traumatic. Swapping all our apps from one set to the other then we have a Humax recorder so that had to be linked in too. Felt very pleased with myself when we did it all without asking the son in law or grandkids.

I tried to call my sister in law yesterday to find out if my nephew's girlfriend had had her baby.
I'm in London, she's in Somerset.
First, because that's the last place we communicated, I messaged her on Instagram (as you do).
Then I thought she might not spot that so, impatient, I sent an SMS. Then I thought what the hell, it's the weekend so I called her mobile.
She told me some of the news then started cutting out because sometimes she can't get a signal at the top of her house. So we hung up and I tried again via Whatsapp.
Same issue. Or maybe a different issue. Who knows. So we hung up and she called our landline.
Our landline, rarely used, is a rather ancient cordless phone, and the battery runs down in a few minutes, which it did, so we had to say goodbye.
Honestly, we might as well have stuck our heads out of our windows and shouted.
In the old days I would have just picked up the phone, which would have been firmly attached by a cable to the wall, and she would have picked up her phone, also firmly attached to the wall.

Yammy
You access YouTube through the internet on your Smart tv or phone.

Yammy

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.

Mine decided to go blank a couple of days ago I charged it fully and restarted it appears all ok now

greenlady102

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

Is there a ‘smug’ emoji?

sara they re ridiculously difficult aren’t they and every make seems to have a different way of doing it
I had a child’s pram set in the other day well it had three of us beat, scratching our heads and in the end a customer helped us ?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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…..?

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.

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

MissA ????????

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....."

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! ?

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....

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.

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.

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.