Ol Smoke Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 You may laugh at the heading but for the last several months I have had this argument with my wife. One day, my wife is watching DirecTv on her TV and the screen screws up and then there is no picture. I am in the back of the house in my study, when she bursts in and starts yelling at me about how my computer is screwing up her TV show. With my mouth agape, I try to calm her first, then explain that the two are not connected together. She is not tech savvy at all. So I go out and reset her DTV receiver and the picture and sound work fine. Then she says this, "stay off the internet when I am watching my program!" (Dr. Phil) I hold my tongue and go back to my study. The next day she is still crazy about this. So I sit her down and show her how the two are not even connected with each other. (Except for my DTV Receiver is hooked to wifi, which I don't use.) About a week goes by and again her STB screws up and I have to reset it again. (It died a few days later) She starts her tirade again about MY internet messing up her TV. So about 3 days later a new STB DVR arrives and I set it up and everything is back to normal. She only watches 8 channels, so, her favorites is easy to do. While I am doing this I take her to the garage and show her how the cables are run around the house to the different STB's. Then I show her how the CAT5 for the internet is run around the house. I think she finally gets it. But.....then the rain starts. Last night we had a terrible storm go over us and it really rained and so the DiTV went out of course. I thought I was in the middle of a cat fight and getting the worst of it. But I explained, again, how the rain affects the signal dish outside. After 30 minutes or so, the rain quit, TV came back on, and it was peace in the house again. Until this morning. I am in the study reading email and texts and running the internet for news, when she comes storming into the room yelling about her TV again. She says, "I am going to cancel that damn internet, if you don't stay off while I am watching my shows !". So, I took her outside to the internet box and I unplugged it. Then we went back in to the house and to her TV and it is going fine. Before I could explain that the internet didn't mess up her TV, she says, "SEE that is what I am talking about!" "Stay off the internet when I am watching my shows!" I slowly crept back to the study, went outside and hooked up the internet cable again and went back to reading the news on the net. She has been happy since then. But I needed about 15 Diazapam® to just get my heart back under 200 BPM. About an hour later, Frontier FIOS calls me and says that I lost connection with them this morning and they are sending someone out to check our lines. Why NOT. Ah the life of old people....it ain't all sitting on the porch drinking Maitai's. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dycantos Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) I have to do this with my mother a lot, she is completely computer illiterate so I'll show how to do something simple, resetting the modem or cable or finding files on the computer and even after showing 10 or more times she still doesn't get it. So I got her an Apple tablet and now she can't ask me for help because I don't know Apple, I take a pleasure knowing some poor apple tech has to deal with her instead of me. If only I could teach her how reset the cable box. Edited January 21, 2018 by Dycantos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheepHeep Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Lol your stories are always worth reading. Thanks for the laugh. My grandparents are the same haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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