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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
In the past two weeks Neil Diamond has been on European tv a lot. My mother wanted to record it all (I'm secretly hoping they have dubbed him on German tv). Because I'm always the one who has to program the HDD recorder I've been trying to teach my mother how to do it, since it isn't that hard. In the last week alone I had her program the thing four times.
Tonight I saw a movie on the BBC that I wanted to see but is on way too late. Because I'm housesitting I texted my mother asking if she wanted to program the recorder. She just called me because she didn't know how to do and when I talked her through it she kept going into a wrong part of the menu because she thought it was more logic than going to the right section.
I seriously think she doesn't want to learn it. It's the same with the computer. Both my sister and me have walked her through selecting, copying, pasting, printing a selection, etc so many times she ought to know how to do it but every time we're (usually me) called to help her/do it. She's been complaining lately that we're irritated but after having to explain it for the Nth time I think we're allowed to get tired of it.
Finger's crossed that the film is recorded although I'm not keeping my hopes up.
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I used to get cross with my mother about not being able to learn how do to simple technical things, but then I realised it was the beginnings of dementia.
