Order Up
Procedure is one of those things where I have to DO it a few times in order to understand and “get it.” Also… I need repetition… If I do it a couple of times… then NOT revisit the process for awhile… forget it. That’s why I take copious notes!
Yeah, I have to do things a few times to get it down usually also. Even though I’m a hands on learner, notes do not hinder the process. 😀
And gods help Mouse if either of his relatives are technophobes…. A technophobe will do things that nobody that likes tech will ever, ever understand….
“I can just pull this USB cable out, right?’ *Yank!*
“NNNOOOooo!”
(Yes, they managed to turn a $200 external drive into a paperweight doing that….)
On the flip side, I dealt with one ‘technophobic’ woman that stopped being scared by tech when she started making money with her computer – she used to own a used book store, and I helped her set up an e-Bay account to sell the remainder that was choking her garage… within six months she was buying more books….
She took to it like a tiger takes to raw meat. 😛
The Auld Grump
Grump– I’m afraid I don’t call people who ask a question and then act before getting an answer a ‘technophobe’, I call them an ‘idiot’. I’ve seen these same people destroy plants and be banned from hospitals for acting without knowing what they’re doing.
Hey, Squiddies! Sorry I’ve been absent from the comments the last few days… I was Sandy Eggo-ing in a non-internet friendly place. So I apologize for the silence. I will go back and answer some of your comments. Smiles!
Pash… we on the same page.
Grump… some folks just put up the cat feet when it comes to learning stuff. Others, and a know a few, can’t wait to eat new stuff up!
chug… banned from hospitals? wow…sounds serious!
….aaaaaand they somehow end up ordering 11,000 copies of the latest issue of Hustler. How? Who knows?!
I’ve run into enough smart, capable people who, given a step-by-step list of instructions for doing something, will skip a step every time, that I’ve decide it must be the normal thing to do. It’s only us obsessive types who check each step before moving on, who do well with computers.
The sad thing is that the second woman referred to herself as a technophobe…. Now she is as happy as a clam selling on e-Bay, and her son is happy to get those books out of his garage. 🙂
The first woman… I think does these things to affirm that technology hates her – it does not occur to her to use just plain common sense. She has had more viruses than any other three people that I know – even though she has been told repeatedly that one of the sites that she visits on a regular basis, to play online slots, is a BAD SITE that infects everyone that visits!
Me, I love my computer, and I do not have half the problems that she does.
On the flip side – one of the first technophobes that I ever met, back in the Commodore 64 days, managed to get her word processor to do columns. Easy Script didn’t DO columns, yet… there they were.
My guess is that she triggered an undocumented or inactivated feature.
As a result, she would start each project with that first columnized document, because she could not remember how she did it….
The Auld Grump, first computer that I ever used was an Altair 8800….
dada… Uh… they don’t have THOSE kinds of ordering capabilities. How the heck would they get an account? …. I won’t go into that.
Attic… yah… I know what yer talkin’ about… it starts with “I know what to do…” until it doesn’t work. THEN they go back and read the instructions.
Grump… I really love what ‘puters can do. I work right into my laptop and It’s nice that (here I go) Apple has made the computer more intuitive for us right brainers who aren’t exactly skilled in more left brain activities. I was really afraid of computers in my younger days… what if I made a mistake? what if I pushed the wrong button? I’m much better now.
Yeah, she decided the IV ‘isn’t supposed to look like that, is it?’ Note to people visiting hospitals: don’t touch the equipment.