That was my first reaction when I checked my email to find two mysterious messages from my mom. Technically one message was from Google on behalf of my mom. The subject said, YOUR MOM wants to chat with you on GoogleTalk.
Ok, ok. It didn’t actually say YOUR MOM, but that is what it was screaming at me.
The second message said, Megan, are you online?
No shit folks. My mom figured out GoogleTalk. All by herself. I am pretty sure she would insist I point that out.
Not that my mom is technology-illiterate. She manages ok. I just never thought the day would come that we chatted over IM. Email was about as far as I thought our techy-convos would go. We are talking about the woman who left this comment on my blog the other day,
Seriously. This is the same woman who always has an unread text message on her phone because she doesn’t know what they are or how to check them. Don’t get mad, Mom. I am only speaking the truth. Go check your phone right now. I will wait. I am betting you have an unchecked text message, and I am also betting you wouldn’t know how to figure out if you did or not.
Let me just say if my mom figures out twitter, facebook, myspace, or she starts a blog… well that is it for me. I think I will move to New Zealand because I am pretty sure that means the apocalypse is coming. If she gets an iPhone, I am driving off a cliff.
Smarty pants! I have you know, I get text msg from Shaunna often. I just don’t use it because I’m frugal…..(your Dad would love that one!) Also, LH and I use IM often. I just decided to bring you into my circle……sorry, are your feelings hurt? Just keep thinking your mom is part of the Stone Age……..if that makes you happy! I’m still an AWESOME MOM………because I said so!
You are describing my mom too. She told me the other day that she didn’t know how to check voicemails (on the cell phone that she never leaves on) and that it beeped at her everytime she turned on her phone. So I had to show her the difficult process of holding down the “1″ key on her phone and voila! Voicemails! I don’t think she could never master the art of text messaging and she can barely handle adding attachments to her email. She DID used to use AIM while I was in college, but she would accidentally sign on and then be on for days without knowing it. It was rare that we were able to actually communicate on there.
Your mom is pretty awesome. Especially when you take into account that she is still sane after raising such a “difficult child.”
Thank you, Traci.
Umm, you just totally described my mom. If she ever figures out how to check a text message I may have a minor heart attack.
Ha, that’s hilarious! Moms are always surprising us, aren’t they! I had to teach my mom to text but actually she got pretty good and even developed her own unintelligible abbreviations. She learned to instant message WITH video when we lived in China. And now she does own an iPhone. She even dropped it in the toilet once, and I suspect her of texting on the pot. So don’t drive off a cliff if that happens…just start a support group or something! ; )
This made me laugh! I don’t know what I’d do if my mom started chatting on gtalk