I think it'll be a good learning experience for him. But I'm going to have to help him to prevent putting it in a condition where he's calling me up asking for help just to drive. If anything he has is out of whack, I'm the one he calls to get to fix it, and seeing the grandchild is an added benefit.
I don't know who watches Ted Lasso, but there was this one scene with the titular character is talking to his mother about how his oven in his apartment works. That's kind of what I end up doing.
Yeah, um, well, the one with the line under the nuclear power symbol, that's for making cookies and chicken. The, uh, three squiggly lines let you burn a frozen pizza. And the key symbol there, that makes the whole thing beep until [best friend and fellow coach] Beard comes over and fixes it for me.
My father loves his electronics. I don't think he can live without them. But he's like a lot of people who are very particular about how they're set up and then freak out because they don't know any other way to use them once the settings are changed. I mentioned he can't remember his passwords and can only access his email through his iPad Pro. Once he asked me to help him with his iPhone, and I saw all the apps waiting to update and then started it. I got yelled at because he was angry that he couldn't figure out how some of them worked any more because they made slight changes.
I mean - his last car doesn't even have a touch screen with a traditional radio. That might be the golden era for him where the technology got better but is more or less transparent to the user. Touch screens and having to go through menus is bound to drive him crazy. I'm going to have to figure out how to get him to avoid all that and just be able to drive.
