My nice, 85-year old mum-in law rang up whilst I was trying to chat tonight. She was a bit upset because there was such a strange programme on TV - just a screenful of writing though there should have been a different programme on. Did we have the same?
No, we didn't. She was sitting on the remote control and had turned teletext on.
There's hope for me yet.
FormerMember
hi pusspins , that made me chuckle my mum is forever ringing my son who is an electrian to sort out her tv [wouldn't mind but hes not a tv enginer but she dosnt know the difference lol] every time he goes to fix it its the same poblem she has pressed the standby button on the remote & swears blind she hasn't . she also trys to put cds into the dvd player oh the joys of whats to come lol love theresa xx
My mother is exactly the same she phones to say her tv is not working we go through the same ritual every time have you got it on, have you got the digi box on, have you checked the aerial ( her cats keep knocking it out) eventually I go up and it takes about 10 seconds to switch it back on for her. Sometime I think she is just looking for company, but what else can you do Mums eh! much as we love them.
My late mother-in-law 'phoned to ask why everything that people were saying was printed on the screen! Trying to fix the problem of the 'subtitles' over the 'phone proved useless so involved an hour-and-half round trip to press one button. Bless!
