The Rare Witch Project

Whyme123 · #1 25th March 2009, 12:34

My second period I have a typing/word processing class. Generally I get 500% As, but when I get a headach in the morning I just sleep through it instead of going home. I tell my mother that is why I fail and that I sho8uld leave when I get a morning headach but oh well.

I am sucking on starburst this morning and it has kept me awake. So I did my work in class.

We had to use text boxes embedded in text boxes and drag and drop crap to make a title page. The same thing could just as easially of been done by typing it, highlighting, and putting in borders but NO we have to use a text box that even the teacher doesn't freaking understand.

So I do the two pages. Page 1 is wrong, page 2 is fine.
Teacher tells me to copy and paste page 2 onto page 1 and print it again.
I do so.
It is wrong.
I tell the teacher it is what she told me to and she said no she didn't say that.
For the next 25 mins she is at my computer, right clicking and doing NOTHING at my computer trying to figure out the mystery of the Zombie Text Box.
Then she prints it and says to me I did it wrong.
Hello, idiot? You printed that out

So, as I am awake, I snap in her face and outright say "If you don't know how to use the computer, maybe you should go to a class or get another job, because the lot of this class knows more about computers then you do"

She was stunned. and said nothing.

Not 60 seconds later I copy and paste the text we were supposed to type, put a boarder on it and print it out.

I hate her.. She is like 65 years old. Old people DO NOT go well with computers at all.

Now I bet if you asked Bill Gates to figure out how to remove the my documents list from the start menu, he would be doubfounded

I hate Cats · #2 25th March 2009, 13:15

Harsh, but I get what you mean. Trying to explain computers to people that THINK they know them but don't is a pain in the arse

TowerOfTragedy · #3 25th March 2009, 13:16

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Whyme123
My second period...

I didn't know you were a girl.

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I tell the teacher it is what she told me to and she said no she didn't say that.
For the next 25 mins she is at my computer, right clicking and doing NOTHING at my computer trying to figure out the mystery of the Zombie Text Box.Then she prints it and says to me I did it wrong.

I laughed, hard.

torrentstorm · #4 25th March 2009, 13:36

I can tell you this, the title of the thread can be a extremely large lie.

PiesAreBlueGuy · #5 25th March 2009, 14:06

Don't get me started on my old computing teacher. He is a master at every subject apart from his own :S

He compares lines of code to "Mars bar and Kipper sandwiches" and talks a lot about elephant boxes.

Teto will be able to back me up on this

Wood Mario · #6 25th March 2009, 14:17

I had a woman in her fifties teach me typing and word processing. She was a good teacher, even though she taught me how to type very well, I can still type faster and make fewer mistakes than she can.

Topmonhit · #7 25th March 2009, 14:42

Look out! It's a generalization!

I had a teacher for computer classes my first 3 years in high school (alas, I had none my Senior year). Now, I don't actually know how old she is. She looked old, but appearance can belie one's age.

Either way, it was too long ago, I don't remember the classes that well. >_> I liked her, though. I had another teacher last semester for a college Introduction to Microcomputers class and, again, I'm not going to go around making assumptions on age. But she was okay. It was the program we did homework on that was horrible.

Yougn people are the WURST history teachers.

IbanezerIceFAIL · #8 25th March 2009, 15:16

The stereotypes/generalisations you are making can be seriously offensive.

My Grandad's friends with this old dude called George and he can do anything and everything with a computer.

TowerOfTragedy · #9 25th March 2009, 15:19

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Originally Posted by IbanezerIceFAIL

he can do anything and everything with a computer.

Don't.. want.. to.. know..

IbanezerIceFAIL · #10 25th March 2009, 15:21

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Originally Posted by TowerOfTragedy

Don't.. want.. to.. know..

The way he takes a hold of that keyboard....such authority.

Arykawesome92 · #11 25th March 2009, 15:30

You know, by your description of how horribly she taught that class made me think we have the same teacher >.< Ours also could have very well been Barbie's grandmother, she was really old and just as plastic. She's a great english teacher, but when it comes to her teaching computer business applications, you may as well have been teaching her.

Tanjo · #12 25th March 2009, 17:42

Good Lord, you're bringing up bad memories of AIT class last semester. My teacher used a typing program from 1992, running on DOS, with no backspace. I had to type using the proper technique, because typing at 80 WPM with the incorrect technique wasn't good enough. For the record, I didn't, and by the end of the term she just accepted it.

DragonBottles · #13 25th March 2009, 17:45

Way to generalise a generation.

Though I admit my Grandma is pathetic with computers.

Whyme123 · #14 25th March 2009, 17:49

There is a diffirence between old people trying to use a computer, in which case they know you know more then them and are willing to ask for help and learn..

..and old people who don't know much trying to teach YOU things, and telling you are wrong when you only do as instructed

IbanezerIceFAIL · #15 25th March 2009, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Whyme123

There is a diffirence between old people trying to use a computer, in which case they know you know more then them and are willing to ask for help and learn..

..and old people who don't know much trying to teach YOU things, and telling you are wrong when you only do as instructed

No, you're saying that all old people are bad with computers.

That's what it seems at least.