Technology Grandmas

My mother isn't the most technically minded. She could be - but she gets annoyed at things, if you know what I mean. I often tell her that if I (heavy emphasis) can master something, then anyone can. She will phone me (when everyone else is in bed in the UK) to rant  shout  tell me about the printer that doesn't work, the photo software she can't work, and the new DVD player that isn't compatible with anything on the planet. Yesterday, I had the audacity to zip a few photos together and she can't open them. I think I was disinherited in the final e-mail (of twenty five.)

Interestingly, in the midst of all this helplessness, she still manages to send me the most inane e-mail jokes involving downloads or video attachments, the software for which I don't possess (nor want to). Most of them have been called out on Snopes.com as ridiculous hoaxes but that doesn't deter her from warning me about everything and anything. Funny how she can manage this- she has obviously aquired the necessary know-how to impress the friends who seem to have nothing better to do than send them round in the first place.

Anyhoo, the latest technology purchase for mama is a scanner. She has totally mastered it but has become the victim of technology paranoia, making it absolutely necessary for her to send me a minimum of three "TEST" e-mails per day. She is scanning the entire contents of her photo collection (many of which I already have) and e-mailing them to me to "see if they come through".

Mother - you have nailed the scanning process. Enough.

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