Thursday, September 2, 2010

Help.

Please God give me patience.

The one thing in the world that makes me crazy is trying to teach my mother how to use a computer. Even at this moment I am struggling to not find the nearest wall and blindly smash my head into it. It's little questions like: "How do you save a picture?" that make me wonder how anyone could ever be a teacher. How many times do I have to demonstrate 'right click, save as'?? It's not that bloody hard! I have absolutely no patience for these kind of things and I feel terrible because if I needed someone to teach me something, I would want that teacher to have some kind of patience with me...yet the only ounce of fortitude I can build up is demonstrated in a frustrated "OK FINE I'LL SHOW YOU" and then I get all huffy when Mum doesn't understand my 5 second blow-off instructions. I know it's not her fault that her generation is computer illiterate yet I still get driven up the wall by her twenty questions. All I ask is for some higher power out there to grant me some composure when dealing with my mother. She doesn't deserve all this agitation. One day I'm going to be an old woman and I only hope that I can have the patience to deal with my stupid children.