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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:43:27 -0400, wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:27:39 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2014-12-02 18:45, wrote:
> >>
> >>> Most of what I know about computers I picked up on my own. I find them
> >>> pretty much self teaching. My wife sometimes drives me craze with her
> >>> inability to deal with the computer. For instance... yesterday she had
> >>> a document that she could not figure out how to print. I told her to
> >>> try clicking on things. I thought that sounded like a good place to
> >>> start. After 5 minutes of her complaining I came out took control of the
> >>> complicated two button mouse.Nothing happened in a left click so I tried
> >>> a left click. A menu appeared with an option to print. It took me less
> >>> than 5 seconds to figure out how to do something that she could not
> >>> figure out at all.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I hope she thumped you >
> >
> >
> >Oh? I told her to try clicking the mouse... left and right buttons. Move
> >it around and click it. I ended up having to take over the mouse...
> >right clicked and Bingo... the menu popped up.
> >
> >
> Just something in the way you expressed your original sentiment was a
> bit unbearable, I have to side with your wife, sisters and all

I agree with you, Lucretia. It takes a few tries and some sticky
notes as reminders to figure these things out. Once they are second
nature, it's hard to understand how everyone can't figure things out -
but his wife is an ex-educator and gets that. He's from law
enforcement, so his black & white attitude reflects his background.

I'm fed up with the way he refers to his wife as megaton and his
bi-polar SIL as a bitch-in-law and then denies that he's judgmental.

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