Pink-Spider.net

I was going through my LJ looking for something I had posted a while ago.

I couldn’t remember when I had posted it, so I was just browsing through.

I came across this post, which for some reason just made me laugh. I can still picture my dad doing it. Since I had written it before Pink-Spider.net was redone, it’s not on this site. I’d like it to be on the site, because I think it was a cute story, and my dad is awesome.

oh dad.
So, we’re in the living room. And my mum goes, “Hey, come here and teach me how to use the search thing on the thing”. I asked if she meant the TV or the computer, and she said the TV. She wanted to search for a program to find out when it was on, and she wanted to know how to do it for next time.

So I said okay, and got the remote from my dad.
We get to the screen where you type in the program name, and it says something like “Please use the on-screen keyboard to type in the program name you are searching for”, which is followed by a keyboard where you select the letters (using the remote).

My dad goes, “Wait a minute, I want to try something”.
He gets up and goes over to the TV. I thought he was going to try to make the picture more clear, because sometimes he thinks it’s fuzzy and tries to adjust it.

But no.
He takes his finger, and starts pressing the letters on the screen – like you would one of those touch sensitive screens at the ATM or movie theatre.

I said to him, O_O What are you doing?
And he goes, IT SAYS USE THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD.

No dad. No. That doesn’t mean you press the screen.
He sat back down all, I don’t know why it says use the on-screen keyboard.

Hahahahaha. He’s … not exactly totally in touch with technology. As you can tell.