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New technology meant trouble for me!

Categorised as Miscellaneous & tagged with parents, technology.

After decades of the old blocky TV, we finally got a flat screen LCD TV in our house for the first time, a sweet 40-inch Sony Bravia. But this TV also made me realise how abso­lutely hopeless those old parents can be with new technology

Day 1

Stephen and I spent two hours moving the new TV into place and setting it up. We also kept the wiring of the various machines (DVD, Karaoke, etc.) the way they were. So tech­nic­ally, everything would have started working like magic after we plug the cables into the TV. However, we were left with an extra cable which we couldn’t figure out where to fit into.

When dad came home from work, he found the “hole” in the wall which that last cable was meant to go into. Good job dad! All he had to do with make that very last con­nec­tion… But no, he pulled out all the other cables too, based on intuitive doubts about us young people’s abilities. I tried stopping him, but I was pushed away and yelled at by mum for not just sitting back and listening to dad.

So who had to do the work of fixing up everything in the end? Duh.

Day 2

I got woken up at early, early morning hours because dad eff’d up TV again. He turned off the power of a separate machine (that shows paid channels), so he couldn’t find those channels on the TV. He decided he’ll get the TV to search for pro­grammes again, which screwed up all the other channels I spent an hour to set up on Day 1.

As soon as the power was restored to the machine, things were fine, but I still had to set up the channels again. Gay as shit. Espe­cially because it took a massive chunk of time away from my sleep and getting-ready time for a date.

Day 3

Getting the new TV meant some furniture had to be shifted around, including a table that pre­vi­ously hid the “ugly” telephone cable.

From the time I woke up on this fine morning, the Internet had been refusing to work for several hours. I dis­con­nec­ted and recon­nec­ted the modem a gazillion times, tried wired and wireless, tried it on two computers, rang our ISP technical support three times, did an isolation test that required me to pull out all the phone lines and identi­fy­ing the machine that’s inter­rupt­ing the Internet con­nec­tion… Then even­tu­ally, I found out it was caused by dad pulling off the filter¹ on the phone cable to make it look less ugly.

There. End of a three day marathon of new tech­no­logy troubles caused not by the smart tech­no­logy, but the fail dad.

Wannabe-lawyer daughter pwns dad with an engin­eer­ing degree. GG.

1. The filter is what allows the phone line and Internet to work at the same time. [↩]