The older I get, the more I find people who are totally uncomfortable with technology. It never ceases to amaze me how well the old joke fits with these people:
"It's so easy, that a 5th grader could understand it. Quick - Find me a 5th grader!"
And yes,what comes naturally to me is so awfully impossible for some people....
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The other day, one of the two women I've been dating wants to buy a computer to do her work remotely. So we run over to the local Micro Center to pick up a new computer, and then install it. Everything is running well until we have to set up the computer on the home network - and then things go sour. She has left all the technology decisions to her daughter, and her daughter is nowhere around to tell us the password/passphrase used to authenticate us on the home router. As a result, we can't complete setting up the computer.
Last night, she tries to reach me while I'm at work, to figure out how to connect the software she needs to perform her business tasks. Not only is she having a hard time installing the Chrome browser, but she is having conflicts due to Microsoft trying to force her to use its Edge browser and cloud services as part of the standard Windows-10 setup. So I agree to drive down after work to help her get her software running - and this means that I will need to do a quick change from female to male presentation before going to see her.
I'll bet that whatever problem I find will be relatively simple for me to fix. And I'll bet that she gets in the way of me fixing it, as she will be nervous due to not understanding what's going on. If I can't fix it, I'll let her know. But it's likely an easy problem to resolve, and I feel confident that I can get her up and running before she works with her first client.
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