You pour pour friend, what can Holland do for you?

while its nice to be needed, its usually better for strangers to teach .. besides do you really want to mother your mother
technically ?? Now you get to kibitz to your hearts content and totally confuse her ;)

Uh... this isn't a "how dare she?" moment... this is a "Whew! I'm glad I missed that train." moment.

You can get a number of massages in the time that you would have spent teaching your mother how we get our pr0n.

;-)

I'm pretty glad mine would rather know how to use a computer to write her letters, books and stuff, but absolutely not to find out via a Net she doesn't like what several of her offspring do, which she'd like even less. Being a Luddite does have its advantages.

Nicholas - I have no control over mummy uncovering what her little angel has been doing 'round these parts. I've been in the Internet archive for quite a while now.

Blue - I think it was in '95 when the parental units wanted to see what the web was all about and I humored them - (I think I mention that in one of my tales somewhere on this damned blog.) Good point about massages vs. teaching, but I'd get a kick out of teaching a senior citizen how to use a computer -- of course as soon as I learn how to use one myself. ;-)

Steve - hahaha! I'd not thought about it that way, but since I'm the one in the family with the laptop, I'm sure she'll be looking for the hardware fix not long after her class.
Joost - :-)

Are you out of your friggin' mind?

You dodged a bullet here and should be counting your blessings. My mother is killing me and I SO regret ever putting her in front of a monitor.

Between spyware infestations (she insists on using IE and actually found it after I installed Firefox and buried that piece of crap thirty-seven levels deep in her file system), her compulsion to install any piece of junk that is free and her perception that chain letters should all be sent to me -- I'm ready to 'accidently' disable her router.

BTW, I did something for you... let me know if there are any problems.

Al - the fact that she doesn't yet have a computer in her home may help avoid the nightmare you face w/your mom; however, I'd rather be involved w/my mom's learning curve ahead of time instead of her coming to me after the fact. If I tell her the Web is evil perhaps she'll stay away from it. ;-)

Al - p.s.

yes I noticed that. Many thanks, though I'm not sure if we need to do a permanent (302?)...

I tried teaching my dad stuff on the computer. he was very hardheaded and difficult. She's better off going to a third party.

I did provide both my parents with laptops (after successions of desktops) only one surfs the net .. so he got the mac .. nothing better than the long distance call that goes:

"XXX sent me an attachment but I can't open it"

"Do you know what it does?"

"No"

"Then how do you know its not a virus?"

"XXX wouldn't do that.."

[3 hours later]

"Hey XXX had a virus, did I catch it when I opened his email?"

luckily mom just wants computer poker games .. why don't you get yours hooked on something and she won't surf at all ... maybe WOW?