As many prepare to trudge home for Thanksgiving, an old dread is in our hearts. Our poor, confused parents and their malfunctioning routers that need fixing. But maybe even scarier? Now they're starting to embrace the same tech we do.
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One of the perkiest perks of having a tech savvy spawn is the comfort of free, lifetime tech support. I've had to field some agonizing, desperate calls in the past.
"Sam, how do I shut down the Comcast?"
"Honey, how do I unplug the printer?"
"Where is AOL?"
We love them, but MY GOD. And Thanksgiving is—you might be fearing—more than any other holiday hotpoint, the epicenter of parental tech obliviousness. It's probably been a while since you've seen them. And in your absence, has every unplugged cord, forgotten WiFi password, and crashed hard drive been piling up? Thanksgiving chitchat can be straining enough—but the thought of my Mom asking me what an IP address is could be most horrifying at all. Where to begin? It would be like explaining the Large Hadron Collider to a member of some Amazonian tribe.
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