November 21, 2004

Everybody's doin' it…

I know that Chris and the Clue Fairy can both relate to these holiday musings on the tech-support generation:

[…] Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and … Please. Let’s be frank. We are going home to fix our parents' computers.

Forget the generational tags you’ve already heard, like Gen X and Gen Y. We are the Tech-Support Generation. […]

Posted by rv at November 21, 2004 11:31 PM to geek
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Oh, how true. And CF has had to fix *my* folks computer as well since I don't have the skills she has. Let us not forget also, the AV trouble-shooting that we do on every visit. Explaining to Mom for the umpteenth time how to program the VCR. She's finally got it, so now on to this year's challenge - hooking up and operating the new DVD player we bought my Dad for Father's Day last summer. Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Donna at November 22, 2004 12:56 PM

This has been my job for the last I-don't-even-known-how-many years! I get home, where the computer has 100 little icons flooding the tray. I delete as many as I can, but by next year they're back.

The horror!

Posted by: poz at November 23, 2004 05:33 PM

hahahaha....that's my life. Holidays = tech support

Posted by: CF at November 23, 2004 07:36 PM

I may have you beat on this one. My parents have been having printer problems. Recently, my mom emailed me to ask me to print out my Amazon wishlist and mail it to her. If Chris and I can't fix whatever is wrong this week, I think we're buying them a new computer. (Happily, PharmaCo has an employee discount program with Dell.)

Posted by: rv at November 23, 2004 10:43 PM