Basic things younger people don't know.

Grammaretto that really made me smile ‘What a pair’!
Really sweet ?

GDD 5 and I tried to find her some alternatives to weird stuff on her iPad. A version of Peppa Pig had surfaced which actually had a horror warning ‘unsuitable for children’. Trying to find something suitable, a series or an appropriate film on my tv was not as easy as I expected. Virgin said I needed to speak to someone , not just pay. After a lot of stress I found ‘Peter Rabbit’ which we both watched. Why is everything so difficult? Some channels bombarded us with well crafted ads for expensive toys. The Smurfs cunningly made us think we want a burger - we really didn’t! Is this progress or just corporate greed?

Other peoples TVs!! You have reminded me. My DGD can find Cbeebies and films she wants to see but together we cannot work out how to find programmes I want to watch.
She's 4 and I am 74.
What a pair.

I haven't worked out my new oven yet. My cake sank in the middle. It has a set of hard to see, inscrutable, selection of programmes.

My husband can’t work our TV at all apart from the volume control.
We’ve had it nearly a year.

Those buggies indeed! Years ago when I took my baby grandson out while I was minding him he fell asleep with the seat upright so kept flopping forward. Could I work out how to recline the blooming thing? Could I heck! After struggling for a while I spotted Mothercare and popped in to ask for help. They obliged and were polite enough not to giggle until I'd left the shop.

I had my daughters tv on day and night for the whole ten days, more or less, beause I wanted to watch the odd programme, but I didnt know how to turn the thing on, off, over, up or down.

It really used to annoy my daughter and my ex that I so shamelessly didn't know, and didn't care enough to learn.

I can’t do and undo baby pushchairs either l can’t watch TV at my youngest daughters I just cannot work out what buttons to press to even get it on let alone change programmes she doesn’t have terrestrial tv just all the various alternatives I cant work her heating system out either or her microwave
???

MissAdventure

Essex boy done good, innit?

Banging ?

Essex boy done good, innit?

Georgesgran
Joey isn’t as green as he’s cabbage looking.
It’s all an act.

Thanks for the reminder Meryl and Maw
I remember Delia's TV series - most thorough.
I ordered Eggs Florentine recently in a cafe. It was expensive. A half roll, some rather tough spinach topped with a half cooked poached egg . Horrible.

Aldom those buggies!
We tried without success to fold a buggy and were trying to pack it into the boot in its upright position.
A youngish parent came to our rescue but even he was struggling.
He admitted to having an engineering degree and eventually worked it out.

I don’t know if this is an urban myth, but it was reported somewhere that despite owning an expensive Rolex watch, Joey Essex (TOWIE) can’t tell the time by it.

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MerylStreep

Grammarreto
Delia Smith wrote a book called, How to boil an egg.
Lots of people laughed at the idea, but if you don’t know, you don’t know.

Actually she didn’t.
You may be confusing these .
But I admit lots of people can’t actually boil an egg, judging by the eggs I have sometimes been offered.

My Gs refuses to bother with Analogue clocks at age 10.

I caught him out on sat nags tho.

(OK, I'll have to give in in the end out of necessity but)

he wanted to travel to the country park with me, and I was supposed to follow Mum and Dad. I ..erm..mistook which people carrier I was following in a busy town and we were separated.

GS panics. I say, we'll do it the old fashioned way. GS looks blank. Panic. Grandma clearly has lost it.

I stopped at 3 places and... gasp..

asked the way..

and we arrived 15 mins later!

My grandson wasn't too sure about analogue clocks.
He learned from me, but then I'm not sure my girl would have known how to do a tie.

Speldnan
Was reading in the paper today that schools are having to put digital clocks as well as analogue in exams because the kids can’t read them.
It’s another use it or lose it thing. They learn to read analogue and record times on analogue clocks starting in KS1, but most children only use that in school. Homes have digital on TV, microwave, devices, and phones, so analogue is soon forgotten.

I think it depends on the time a person was born.

For example, I can remember old money, but I have no idea how it worked, because decimilisation was bought in just before I started to learn about money. (By playing in the school "shop", selling and buying things.

Was reading in the paper today that schools are having to put digital clocks as well as analogue in exams because the kids can’t read them. I used to work in a grammar school running the exams and there were teenagers who could only read digital clocks- I found it shocking I must say. My grandchildren all learnt while they were quite young. I also taught them to tie their shoe laces, how to knit and how to to tie a tie!

Those too.
I also couldn't work out how to use a key meter for the electric.
All these numbers come up, and some is emergency, but it's ok, because you can regularly use the emergency amount... weird!

The thing that used to get me was the grandchildren's baby buggy. Never got the hang of opening and folding the thing.

I stayed at my daughters for ten long days while she was on holiday.
Dog, cat, two children, and a hello fresh delivery every day.

I couldnt get the Hoover to work the whole time I was there.

I had to sweep up on my hands and knees with a dustpan and brush.

we once stayed in a hotel which had a posh coffee machine and we had no idea how to use it so just drank tea

I think that is what puts me off tech.

People start eye rolling and sighing, or they show you too quickly, so you can't see what their hands are doing.

No one knows What they don't know until they are told

MerylStreep

Grammarreto
Delia Smith wrote a book called, How to boil an egg.
Lots of people laughed at the idea, but if you don’t know, you don’t know.

Yesterday I watched a programme on TV. A middle aged doctor was a guest in a self catering property. For breakfast bread and an electric toaster were supplied along with eggs and an egg boiling machine. The gentleman didn't have breakfast, explaining to the host that he had never made toast or cooked an egg and did not know how to use the machines. Although instructions were provided for the egg boiler.