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Emailing England

Posted on Saturday, 21st May 2005 at 7:16pm
38 Comments Ensuing

My mother isn’t very good with computers, sure she can type up letters and play solitaire, but anything to do with the internet eludes her, especially when it comes to email…

Mum: I have to send an email to someone I know in England.
Me: Do you have her email address?
Mum: Yes, but she’s in England.
Me: So…
Mum: She’s in England.
Me: Mum, you can send and check email from wherever you are in the world; it’s not like a physical street address with a mailman who sometimes gets drunk and loses the mail.
Mum: Oh. Are you sure?
Me: Yes mum, I’m sure.
Mum: But she’s in England, how will it get there?
Me, mumbling under my breath: On the back of a magical email elf that likes to eat peas dipped in cranberry sauce and listens to Enya.
Mum, who thankfully wasn’t listening closely enough to hear my smart-assed reply: What?
Me: Nothing, just send the email to her.
Mum: Ok.

A short time later she returns with an accomplished smile on her face…

Mum: You were right, I sent it, and she replied.
Me: No kidding.
Mum: Yes, it’s amazing this email thing.
Me: That it is.

38 Responses to “Emailing England”

Kayhadrin comments:

May 21st, 2005 at 8:44pm

Parents are always fun when they’re discovering the computer thing. (if it’s not already done)
But when my father asked me if he should replace windows by linux, I answered : “Oh No !”
’cause I know he would phone me everytime he has a problem with it.

becca comments:

May 21st, 2005 at 9:09pm

There went your last chance to seek refuge in England should things ever go bad between you and your mother. Heh.

Molly comments:

May 21st, 2005 at 10:22pm

That’s adorable. Moms are great.

Jessa comments:

May 21st, 2005 at 10:28pm

aw lol. my mom is the same thing. shes’ not into the whole internet scene. cute layout btw.

Phil Sherry comments:

May 21st, 2005 at 10:42pm

But, our mailmen do sometimes gets drunk and lose the mail.

Lee comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 12:09am

I think the general consensus is that any technology that is sufficiently advanced from the current technology will appear to people to be magic. So just tell her it’s magic, the technical explanation will probably just fry her brain anyhow.

Bob comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 12:38am

so sweet, and at least she is trying. you are good to be so patient with your mum…and keep mumbling

Kate comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:16am

Lol! Your mum sounds hilarious, my dad comes out with silly things like that too!

Michelle comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:18am

Haha my moms said some equally mind blowing things lol

Baron comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 8:46am

I can certainly sympathise with you. Whenever my mum gets on here, I’m coming into the room every 10 minutes because she has a problem. Shes not too bad, but she often closes windows when she doesn’t want to, and freaks out when she minimises them and stuff heh.

ReneÃ© comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 12:37pm

Haha, everytime you post with a bit of a story about your mom, I get way too excited. She’s adorable.

Chris comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:11pm

Your mom would freak to know that people all over the world read her daughters web site. People like me, all the way from the US for crying out loud!

Jennifer comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:21pm

Lovely. Although, sadly enough, my brother’s therapist would probably think/say something quite similar.

Gregster comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:44pm

An herbalist, or is it a Kabbalist(?), might know something about your node. An acupuncturist might be a swell thing, too. A swell node is Nodey Knowed.

Moms are cool. Enjoy them while they are conscious. Move the furniture around them when they are not. It’s alot of fun for not alot of money.

Insanity on a budget. Fiscal responsibility at all costs.

Amanda comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 4:07pm

My mum is amazingly quite computer literate however whenever she has an issue she’s always sayng ‘Amanda, do you know anything about *random program i’ve never herd of in my life*? Um no mum.

Phill comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 4:31pm

rofl…. thats fun .. sounds like my own mother .. when she started writing emails, i heared questions even like that .. Same thing i had was with surfing the web… She:”but this website is in australia, with german internet i can only see homepages in germany …
parents are always like that in computer questions ..

Baron comments:

May 22nd, 2005 at 8:50pm

It’s cool to see that not only have you saved the world 27 times, but you’re a West Aussie too. I’m around 3 hours South of Perth ^_^;

Roze comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 4:08am

lmao! she sounds like my poor mommy

Alette comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 4:22am

Your mum sounds like mine! Although mine can’t even start a computer up, let alone do anything on it! lol

John comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 4:48am

But, our mailmen do sometimes gets drunk and lose the mail.

And sometimes they do it without being under the influence

Ken comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 6:35am

haha that was kinda weird.. my mom knows NOTHING about computers

Jeff comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 7:38am

lol That was great!

Marie comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 11:48am

Haha that sounds exactly like my mom, only my mom is worse. She has asked me how to close a webpage and how many times she has to click on an icon. She gets confused because sometimes you click once and sometimes twice, depending on what you are clicking on.

dina comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 2:27pm

lol

Kris comments:

May 23rd, 2005 at 11:27pm

My mom used to be the same way. She’s getting better though, she was able to email me from a cruise ship about a month ago without any help from anyone! Oh they grow up so fast. Now if only I can push my dad’s progress into the internet along a bit faster, then I’d be all set!

cottonkandy.cjb.net comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 2:06am

hehe thats cute!
I think my dad would be somewhat like that!

Maddie comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 2:09am

Can’t. Stop. Looking. at. the. monkey.

I bet you get tons of hits that way, people refreshing the browser to see what the monkey says. Genius. Plus, totally cause of your content to. It rocks.

natalie comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 3:52am

you’re hilarious!!!

Daniel comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 4:25am

Lol. Whenever I reformat our computer, my mom goes through all her email and prints it off because she’s afraid that me erasing the hard drive will cause her email to disappear

Nina comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 11:29am

My mom is getting a bit better. She still has to call me while she’s sending and email, asking me if she’s “doing it right”.

Craig comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 11:32am

I have been pulling my hair out with email issues such as these lately. My father is in Iraq for 3 months, my mother and sister are here at home, and my brother-in-law is in Virgina. Even though it’s 2005, each and every one of these people has trouble using email! No I am not kidding.

To compound matters, I’m the person that everyone calls for help. I can totally relate Kitta, believe me, my mom is the same way.

–Craig (blogspot.poletown.com)

cici comments:

May 24th, 2005 at 12:01pm

haha, my mom is the same way. when she made her first email address, she put “www” in front of it.

AsharEdith comments:

May 25th, 2005 at 7:33am

ROFLOL

Remembered me when I tried to explain Mom about Blogging. SO funny… Thank God they have us to survive in this cruel cyber world! LOL

David House comments:

May 27th, 2005 at 2:35am

Funny, a similar thing happened to me the other day

Thanks for sharing.

Kitta comments:

May 27th, 2005 at 2:40am

Kayhadrin, my mother even rings me from work instead of ringing the network tech’s that are paid to keep the company’s computers up and running.

Becca, aww crap, and I was all set to do London.

Phil Sherry, so does mine, I think it’s a hobby they have.

ReneÃ©, she is adorable, when she’s excited her eyes get wide and she acts like a 5 year old on Christmas morning. So cute.

Chris, no she wouldn’t she knows that people read my blog, whenever she says anything funny I always say “so blogging that”.

Gregster, no I don’t think acupuncture on an enlarged lymph node is a good idea, nor would it really do anything and might cause infection.

Marie, no matter how many time I tell my mum, she always tipple clicks on everything. It’s like she thinks clicking it a few more times will make thing load faster.

Maddie, yep it’s all about the monkey.

AsharEdith, I once observed my mother trying to explain blogging to other, it was hilarious, she had to get me to come over and explain it after 5 minutes of confusion.

Callum comments:

May 29th, 2005 at 11:19pm

My dad was all a flutter last night because he needed to send an e-mail to Germany… I explained – as did you – that it was fairly simple ect. It was his response that made my mind boggle:

“I thought it went somewhere else first.”

oh, parents.

Matt Robin comments:

May 30th, 2005 at 2:18am

Sweet! My mum is like that too with all sorts of things…the trouble is, once she’s worked out how to do something new – she then takes it too far and gos out of control! *Laughs*

Text-messaging on her phone would be a prime example: she was useless with it at first, and now she’s embraced that awful ‘text-language’ gibberish…and none of it makes sense! I frequently have to phone my mum back to ask her what she actually put in her text to me…which sort of defeats the whole communication concept. Mums are so funny!

Your post caught my attention because I’m actually IN England!

victor comments:

June 1st, 2005 at 4:12am

all mums loves solitaire xD
ur mum is funny i like her

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Nikita (Kitta) Kashner is a 20-something year old girl from Perth, Western Australia. Currently studying to be a medical scientist. Trained blogger, jewellery designer, writer, gamer, sexy geek and monkey tamer, who spends her spare time trying to stop the Little Red Monkey from taking over the world. So far, she's stopped him 43 times... Continue?