That probably would be left over stock from when they had the shop with sewing materials etc. Glad to hear she's doing well. You really need to convince her to get a handle on using her computer. There are lots of basic courses at the libraries that would be helpful.
Mavia
I think the grandson has her convinced it is difficult. I know once she was telling me what a computer genius he is, I am afraid I don't believe one word of it. Easy for a person who knows nothing to think a person with a little knowledge is a genuis lol I tried to explain to her that it could open up all sorts of avenues for her, not just email, but gave up.
She's still there anyway and if you want anything, I guess you have only to 'phone and arrange a time with her and she is only too willing to assist.
Doesn't even take someone else to convince people it's difficult. Mom convinced herself.
One of my cousin's kids was online, spotted me online, asked did Mom want to have IM with me, and Mom didn't even want to use the shift key for fear she'd blow something up. She typed her half of the conversation in all lower case and then made Heather click "Send". When Heather got bored and walked away, even though Mom saw what she'd been doing, she wouldn't click "Send" herself, she made the even-younger kid come over and do it for her.
Last time I was home, we had one of Fred's lengthy and humorous missives, which I chose not to read aloud because it was so long. I instructed her "just press the down arrow". Oh, no, she might break my expensive computer and then how would I do my work?
Dad, who doesn't even know how to use a typewriter, was game. "This button?" "Yeah, Dad." So, he sat and scrolled down and Mom stood and read over his shoulder. All by himself he figured out, when she complained "I didn't finish that paragraph", that the solution was the up arrow. While she's shrieking "you don't know it's OK to touch that!" Seemed logical to Dad that if there was something he shouldn't touch, I would've pointed to it and said "touch this, you die" before I walked away.
Nearly 20 years ago, I bought her an electric/memory typewriter. She's still using her old Sears manual. She's NOT that stupid, she was high school valedictorian at age 15, she's just got herself convinced that any electronic device might explode if she pushes the wrong button.
I have found many people believe they can press one button and everything will implode. Sometimes I wish that were so!
I had a co-worker who thought that way.
We hired her because we were impressed that a 60 y/o had the gumption to go back to school after her husband died, to learn word processing. Unfortunately, the school apparently graduated her for the same reason. She was petrified to hit any of the keys that don't appear on a standard typewriter keyboard. She'd type a letter, but I had to hit Ctrl-P to print it.
One afternoon when things were slow, I made her stop-watch me, as I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, to the time I got the computer up and running again. Matter of minutes. Then I showed her the worst possible thing that could happen -- I unplugged the computer, which in those days caused total memory loss. Took me less than an hour to reload absolutely everything we'd just lost, and far less than that to reinstall just the software we needed to be able to start working. Finally convinced her that nothing she could do (short of pouring a pitcher of water into it) would kill the computer.
Now Karen, you don't know that. She might have enjoyed playing with high voltage!
Gee - my Dad manages to!
Cheryl
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