Subscribe by EmailHow elderly people see television remotes
August 13, 2008 by Kiltak |Let’s admit it, most elderly people can’t handle today’s “new fangled” television remotes. They all think that they’ll break something if they hit a button they’ve never touched before. Even my parents, who are in their mid-60s, look like complete idiots when trying to switch from one television channel to another. They’re so slow to punch in numbers that when switching to a multi-digit channel, they don’t even have time to hit the second or third number before the television thinks they’re done with their choice. I don’t know about you, but this drives me totally crazy. Anyway, if you’re like me and know some old folks who are afraid of touching remotes of any kind, the following comic by Roz Chast will really make you snicker.
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ROFL.I am going to sent this to my mom. hahaha
oups…. I mean, SEND.
Great cartoon. I can see my farm wife grandmother now just looking down at the remote and saying, “Oh dear”.
Old people? Heck, give me a remote with that many buttons and that’s what it looks like to *me*!
Good prose there, comic was a let-down.