My mom raged at me in a family restaurant because I said it just wasn't possible to "burn wireless internet onto a CD-ROM" for her. She said I am incredibly selfish and with holding. I love Sunday dinners.

On a drunken night, one of my friends suggested that we do a "parent swap" for tech support, so her parents would call me for help and my parents would call her, on the theory that we would be more patient with them and they would try to look slightly self sufficient to people they didn't raise for decades.

Oh god, more internet! Exact same problem. Got her a smart phone and put her on my plan. Told her she's got unlimited internet and she can do whatever she wants with the phone. She told me she's pretty sure I'm wrong and her phone doesn't have internet, just email. "Trust me on this one, mom."

I had to admit it but I've started ducking my mom's calls. Getting her a laptop seemed like a great idea at the time, I was all smug as I bought it thinking "son of the year right here! Not even a special occasion, how great am I?"

I totally had Oreos and chocolate milk for dinner earlier this week, and I have a job and an apartment and the other hallmarks of a reasonably well-adjusted adult, so I resoundingly endorse your parenting! ;)