Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 09, 2009
August 08, 2009
August 10, 2009
Transcript:
VACATION FUN Mom and Dad: We dreamed of an "instruction-free" vacation. It took us 57 tries over a ten-day period to buy plane tickets. Cell phone: Press the pound key after your four-digit locater after your 35-digit member code. Mom and dad: Then we hit the self-serve e-ticket check-in. The rental car had an electronic navigational system which insulted us in a foreign language after our 26-minute effort to start the computerized ignition. GPS: IDIOTAS! Mom and Dad: We couldn't open the door to our room. Dad: Arrow up! No. Arrow down! No. Arrow up! Mom and Dad: We also couldn't make a call, hear a message or adjust the air conditioner. Then we tried to turn on the TV. TV Remote: To access the option menu, press the select function. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Mom: Isn't there any place left where lessons aren't required?? Dad: Please send a manual on how to get there.
gobblingup Premium Member over 15 years ago
Try your local state park campground.
alondra over 15 years ago
This stuff drives me nuts. They’ve made everything so complicated!
LibrarianInTraining over 15 years ago
Indeed. Hubs and I spent the first 4 hours of our honeymoon trying to turn the AC up. It was like 60 degrees in there!
Silverpearl over 15 years ago
I’d rather just stay home.
AndiJ over 15 years ago
It’s my parents. Yikes. Well, just my mom. She’s so electronics illiterate. :( Although, she could turn on a car and get into the hotel room, sheesh. How hard is that?! The other stuff I can see. ;)
krisl73 over 15 years ago
Everyone’s TV system is different now. I’m thinking of writing up instructions to mine so that when friends and family come over, they don’t have to ask how to deal with it.
alife over 15 years ago
CA is trying to close the “state parks’ :P