Maybe if people had read the manuals... :)

My parents thought it was SO CUTE to give my brothers sips of beer when they were little kids. One alcoholic and two problem drinkers, yeah baby.

I know. I did tech support for Toshiba for several years. 

That too. But better, I think, to stop the stupid upgrade from happening till everyone ELSE whops the bugs out.

Millions of people were perfectly capable of using DOS software that was put out by companies that didn’t think they were all brainless sissies. Look at the popularity of WordPerfect, which had one of the most arcane command structures ever invented.

Hmm. 12.3% fake. But “fewer fakes than most” with my level of connections.

Keep in mind that Microsoft created the market for Windows in the first place by launching an all-out campaign to convince people they were just too stupid to do anything but point and click.

This is the main reason why I considered spending the extra $$$$ for the Pro version of Win10 an absolute necessity. I got at least a little control over when those damn updates land on me.

The city of Glendale, a Los Angeles suburb, fought a long and determined war against an adult bookstore that was located in an industrial area and bothering no one (who wasn’t looking for a reason to get hysterical over the mere presence of an adult bookstore, that is). The bookstore eventually closed down.

My father, who was born in 1922, was absolutely adamant that butter could NOT be left out to soften because “It will go rancid.” Nothing would ever convince him otherwise. So our family scraped rock hard butter over toast and hoped it didn’t tear it into too many pieces. And baking with rock hard butter was an…

Is the picture of a ‘64 model Beetle? The bumper doesn’t look right.

I graduated from high school in 1968 and we put a lock on the TV so the kids couldn’t zone out with the tube before I got home from work. I gather we were the meanest parents on the planet (and we had zero money for afterschool activities or a video game console so the kids got mucho mileage out of complaining to…

My memory’s not that super-powered good but it is definitely better than usual. And it kept me in constant conflict with my mother, who only remembered things that mattered to her and edited the memories in her favor as well. “You’re so negative!” she’d say when I corrected her version. Sometimes I could get my oldest…

California was the last state to implement Caller ID because there were so many rich snowflakes who didn’t want anyone to know it was them calling. While we waited for someone to smack them down, we let the answering machine pick up every call that came in. It pissed off several of my relatives who expected their…

My granddaughter knew the fake remote was fake the first time she saw it (she was two at the time) but she plays with it anyway.

Our move into this house was the perfect opportunity to take three two-foot stacks of technical journals that my husband refused to part with (he might miss something!) to the recycle bin.

It’s just as well my mom died before vaping became popular. Otherwise she’d have seen it as a “safe” way to keep smoking.

I never saw a machine like that. I wonder how long they lasted?

There is nothing too stupid for this ormolu fool to try to get his daddy’s approval, and it’s never going to work.

At one of the grocery stores my mom shopped at when I was a kid, I put some money in a soda machine that dispensed bottles, and the bottle got stuck coming down. So I reached up inside it and jiggled the bottle and another bottle came down with it. My brother was thrilled to get his own bottle of soda (we usually had…