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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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What stupid things have your elderly relatives done?

My dear old mother, bless’er, used to keep her mobile turned off. She’d turn it on to text me a question then turn it off again for days at a time.

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By *avexxMan  over a year ago

cheshire

is she saving the battery,,

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

My mum isn’t even old (55) and does this. I texted her the other day and didn’t hear for days as she had left her phone in the car. She lives 300 miles away, good job it wasn’t an emergency

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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How long have you got?

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"How long have you got? "

All evening!!! Go for it

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"My mum isn’t even old (55) and does this. I texted her the other day and didn’t hear for days as she had left her phone in the car. She lives 300 miles away, good job it wasn’t an emergency "

Maddening isn’t it!

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Thought they were still connected to their home Wi-Fi when out n about

Miss S x

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Mayfair

They left the Grey Havens towards the Undying Lands...and broke my heart. Elderly relatives have a habit of doing this. The buggers.

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"They left the Grey Havens towards the Undying Lands...and broke my heart. Elderly relatives have a habit of doing this. The buggers."

Exactly what my mum did. Inconsiderate.

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"How long have you got?

All evening!!! Go for it "

I feel a bit disloyal but let me just say that extreme old age and the internet is a dangerous combination

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"What stupid things have your elderly relatives done?

My dear old mother, bless’er, used to keep her mobile turned off. She’d turn it on to text me a question then turn it off again for days at a time."

Her phone battery must last a good year or two

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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If your lifeline button is in a drawer and you call over its no good to you

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"My mum isn’t even old (55) and does this. I texted her the other day and didn’t hear for days as she had left her phone in the car. She lives 300 miles away, good job it wasn’t an emergency

Maddening isn’t it! "

I had only messaged to say my number had changed. About 3 days later, she messaged back a simple “Y?” Then sent a further message asking how the dog was.

Love you too mum

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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*fall

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"If your lifeline button is in a drawer and you call over its no good to you"

Ha! “Oh I know dear but I like things to be tidy”

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"My mum isn’t even old (55) and does this. I texted her the other day and didn’t hear for days as she had left her phone in the car. She lives 300 miles away, good job it wasn’t an emergency

Maddening isn’t it!

I had only messaged to say my number had changed. About 3 days later, she messaged back a simple “Y?” Then sent a further message asking how the dog was.

Love you too mum "

And how is the dog?

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

My mother (65) has just confessed that she's never listened to my voice messages on WhatsApp because she didn't know how too. I'd get a message back saying she couldn't hear me. My sister showed her how to over Christmas

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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If you have pains in your chest and shortness of breath do not walk to the pharmacy to ask for advice

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"My mum isn’t even old (55) and does this. I texted her the other day and didn’t hear for days as she had left her phone in the car. She lives 300 miles away, good job it wasn’t an emergency

Maddening isn’t it!

I had only messaged to say my number had changed. About 3 days later, she messaged back a simple “Y?” Then sent a further message asking how the dog was.

Love you too mum

And how is the dog?"

He’s ok but I suspect he’d quite like to go back to his Grandma’s gaff

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By *ittall2020Man  over a year ago

Norwich


"How long have you got? "

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table."

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button "

I bet your patience is severely tested at times!!

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

I bet your patience is severely tested at times!!"

Yes. But...my mum died just under a year ago, dad's on his own after 67 years of marriage we do have our patience tested but never let it show. I tend to unload on other people and laugh about it, like we are here

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

I bet your patience is severely tested at times!!

Yes. But...my mum died just under a year ago, dad's on his own after 67 years of marriage we do have our patience tested but never let it show. I tend to unload on other people and laugh about it, like we are here "

Oh I am sorry to hear about that. 67 years marriage is a long time! Poor chap must be finding it hard. My dad is in a similar position but to a lesser extent. And luckily he’s a pretty switched on guy - he’s got an iPhone and iPad and knows how to use them!

But he still writes shaky hand cheques, bless him.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple  over a year ago

Manchester-ish

Driving with cataracts.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS  over a year ago

Horsham

An older relative swapped the rechargeable batteries in her phone, for normal ones. Then couldn't figure out why the phone kept going dead.

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By *burns7Man  over a year ago

walsall

Told me mom once that I’m working till 9, got a text at 7 saying where are you your tea is done

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West

All the crazy things my Dad has done are due to dementia, so it's not exactly him just being eccentric. He's lost his car (drove to train station; went to town. Caught bus home, having forgotten his morning routine). We confiscated his car not long after.

He's left his keys in the front door, his house is on a busy main road and not the most salubrious area.

He obsessively checks his email about 20 times an hour but deletes everything he's read instantly. Then forgets the content but can't re-read.

He's got on the wrong bus and I've had drivers ring me for instructions about where to send him home by taxi.

Those sorts of thing.

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple  over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Adamant they hadn't picked their new glasses up..... found them in a slipper

Tinder

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple  over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Argued their hearing aids were broken....they were switched off

Tinder

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them "

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*"

As you know my mum died last year, we still haven't found her hearing aids. My dad is badly in need of help with his hearing but won't consider it. Phone calls with him have taken on a slightly comical but nightmarish quality and face to face it's obvious that he's not hearing what we're saying but pretending he has. The volume of the TV being set to 80 is a clue

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I am the elderly relative, and I do all sorts of stupid shit!.....

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple  over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow


"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*

As you know my mum died last year, we still haven't found her hearing aids. My dad is badly in need of help with his hearing but won't consider it. Phone calls with him have taken on a slightly comical but nightmarish quality and face to face it's obvious that he's not hearing what we're saying but pretending he has. The volume of the TV being set to 80 is a clue "

I see this in clinic a lot, the results are obvious but they insist they're fine and I've spent the appointment almost shouting

Tinder x

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them "

My dad does this!! He’s deaf as a post and going out for lunch with him is a nightmare.

“So how’s things?”

“EH??”

“How are you?”

“WHAT??!!”

Oh ffs “HOW ARE YOU?”

(Whole pub looks around)

Turn the frickin things on and up!!!

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*

As you know my mum died last year, we still haven't found her hearing aids. My dad is badly in need of help with his hearing but won't consider it. Phone calls with him have taken on a slightly comical but nightmarish quality and face to face it's obvious that he's not hearing what we're saying but pretending he has. The volume of the TV being set to 80 is a clue

I see this in clinic a lot, the results are obvious but they insist they're fine and I've spent the appointment almost shouting

Tinder x"

When I come back from my dad's it takes me about an hour to stop the shouting voice. It's clearly affecting his cognitive ability and he's missing important information at hospital appointments etc, I listen to his voicemails when I'm there because he tells me people just mumble.

Not a lot I can do if he won't get it sorted and he often tells me off saying

" No need to shout, I'm not deaf you know"

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Phone turned off. Worrying if something bad happened.

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"Phone turned off. Worrying if something bad happened. "

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By *innamon!Woman  over a year ago

no matter


"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button "

Haha ! that has really made me laugh much louder than I should considering I am the age you are all talking about .

Thankfully I still have most of my marbles where technology is concerned

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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East Sussex


"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

Haha ! that has really made me laugh much louder than I should considering I am the age you are all talking about .

Thankfully I still have most of my marbles where technology is concerned "

The person I'm talking about is 95

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple  over a year ago

letchworth

My mum gave my step dad a list of jobs to do, he decided he wasn’t going to do them in order. Second on the list was post letter, unfortunately, first on the list was buy stamps

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

Haha ! that has really made me laugh much louder than I should considering I am the age you are all talking about .

Thankfully I still have most of my marbles where technology is concerned

The person I'm talking about is 95 "

Technically still young enough to join fab!!!

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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East Sussex


"How long have you got?

Absolutely. Basically, anything involving technology "goes wrong" or "is faulty". Currently I'm 7 months into sorting out a wildlife camera for them, which works perfectly for me but apparently never works for them.

I actually retrieved it from them yesterday, to me it seems to have been recording perfectly, though I now have to show them a video of a massive rat on their bird table.

we have recently repaired a broken laptop...by pressing the on button

Haha ! that has really made me laugh much louder than I should considering I am the age you are all talking about .

Thankfully I still have most of my marbles where technology is concerned

The person I'm talking about is 95

Technically still young enough to join fab!!! "

The saints preserve us!

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple  over a year ago

in Lancashire

The combination of early onset dementia (a few yrs ago) and a generous nature plus the internet led to two king size mattresses being ordered, one for him for his single bed and the other to fit a standard double ..

Glad the company were understanding, love him..

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple  over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow


"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*

As you know my mum died last year, we still haven't found her hearing aids. My dad is badly in need of help with his hearing but won't consider it. Phone calls with him have taken on a slightly comical but nightmarish quality and face to face it's obvious that he's not hearing what we're saying but pretending he has. The volume of the TV being set to 80 is a clue

I see this in clinic a lot, the results are obvious but they insist they're fine and I've spent the appointment almost shouting

Tinder x

When I come back from my dad's it takes me about an hour to stop the shouting voice. It's clearly affecting his cognitive ability and he's missing important information at hospital appointments etc, I listen to his voicemails when I'm there because he tells me people just mumble.

Not a lot I can do if he won't get it sorted and he often tells me off saying

" No need to shout, I'm not deaf you know" "

Haha I have that from patients as well

Tinder

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"Not wearing hearing aids because you can hear things with them

My Dad does this too. According to his audiologist, wearing them when alone at home is important to maintain cognitive function, because the brain is dealing with all those little sounds in the background. Dad forgets, though.... *Facepalm*

As you know my mum died last year, we still haven't found her hearing aids. My dad is badly in need of help with his hearing but won't consider it. Phone calls with him have taken on a slightly comical but nightmarish quality and face to face it's obvious that he's not hearing what we're saying but pretending he has. The volume of the TV being set to 80 is a clue

I see this in clinic a lot, the results are obvious but they insist they're fine and I've spent the appointment almost shouting

Tinder x

When I come back from my dad's it takes me about an hour to stop the shouting voice. It's clearly affecting his cognitive ability and he's missing important information at hospital appointments etc, I listen to his voicemails when I'm there because he tells me people just mumble.

Not a lot I can do if he won't get it sorted and he often tells me off saying

" No need to shout, I'm not deaf you know"

Haha I have that from patients as well

Tinder "

I'm fully aware that this is what my not to distant future might look !like. I'm trying to take mental notes so that I don't fall into the 'I'm not deaf, you're mumbling' trap

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By *elix Sighted OP   Man  over a year ago

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" When I come back from my dad's it takes me about an hour to stop the shouting voice. It's clearly affecting his cognitive ability and he's missing important information at hospital appointments etc, I listen to his voicemails when I'm there because he tells me people just mumble.

Not a lot I can do if he won't get it sorted and he often tells me off saying

" No need to shout, I'm not deaf you know"

Haha I have that from patients as well

Tinder

I'm fully aware that this is what my not to distant future might look !like. I'm trying to take mental notes so that I don't fall into the 'I'm not deaf, you're mumbling' trap"

But haven’t we all spent our lives saying “i definitely will NOT turn out like my parents!”

When I was young I promised myself I’d be a cool parent and would let the kids do fun stuff, that I wouldn’t tut and shake my head at yoofs, that I’d listen to cool music. Nope!

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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" When I come back from my dad's it takes me about an hour to stop the shouting voice. It's clearly affecting his cognitive ability and he's missing important information at hospital appointments etc, I listen to his voicemails when I'm there because he tells me people just mumble.

Not a lot I can do if he won't get it sorted and he often tells me off saying

" No need to shout, I'm not deaf you know"

Haha I have that from patients as well

Tinder

I'm fully aware that this is what my not to distant future might look !like. I'm trying to take mental notes so that I don't fall into the 'I'm not deaf, you're mumbling' trap

But haven’t we all spent our lives saying “i definitely will NOT turn out like my parents!”

When I was young I promised myself I’d be a cool parent and would let the kids do fun stuff, that I wouldn’t tut and shake my head at yoofs, that I’d listen to cool music. Nope! "

Very true.

My dad spends 75% of his time in 1947 and the other 25% not understanding 2023. I'll probably be the same but existing in 1974

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

For some reason, one of my cousins thought it would be a good idea to get my 96yr old nanna an 'Alexa' for Xmas.

My mam showed her how to play some old songs she liked.... Within 10 mins of getting home she was already on the phone to my mam... 'what's this woman's name again, I can't remember and she won't stop singing'

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Went on holiday to Tenerife for 3 months and left the back door unlocked...

Tried to knock a seagull nest down with bamboo canes, he had a licence. He tied 3 together and ended up in hospital with chest pains and remembers none of it....

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By *icecouple561Couple  over a year ago
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"For some reason, one of my cousins thought it would be a good idea to get my 96yr old nanna an 'Alexa' for Xmas.

My mam showed her how to play some old songs she liked.... Within 10 mins of getting home she was already on the phone to my mam... 'what's this woman's name again, I can't remember and she won't stop singing' "

bless her heart

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