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An incredibly stupid but important question

Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchscritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
edited June 2012 in Social Entropy++
So we just moved, and my mom flew up to our old house to day to get rid of the last few things inside

she can not figure out how to unlock the garage door

I've unlocked it but I just kind of fiddle with it until it opens so I don't really know how to explain it to her

it's one of those ones where it's a sliding bar that sticks into the track that the door moves on

and on one end of it is a small metal box with two small levelers, one sticking out of the top and one from the bottom

I know you do something with those two levers but she has evidently been fiddling with them for over an hour and can't figure it out

so does someone possibly know how to do this

google is unhelpful because apparently most people don't have any trouble with operating a simple mechanical device

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    ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    it sounds like you need to grab both those and twist them either clockwise or counterclockwise

    some pictures would help, I think

    e: a delightful illustration of what I'm imagining
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    Arang on
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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Case CLOSED. Good work Arang.

    If Mom Racer can't figure this out she has no business beig the matriarch of the illustrious Racer clan.

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Case CLOSED. Good work Arang.

    If Mom Racer can't figure this out she has no business beig the matriarch of the illustrious Racer clan.
    She doesn't give a damn about being a Matriarch. She's in it for The Cash.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    I feel your pain Speed.

    My mother in the past ten years has become so technologically illiterate she can't operate a DVd player that's already hooked up to a TV.

    Literally two button presses on a remote.

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
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    Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    nah it wasn't her fault

    the lock was a little rusty so it was hard to turn

    she got it though

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE RACER CLAN!

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    GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    This week on Mom Effect...

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    that's why you always keep a sledge hammer leaning against your house in the backyard

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    one time while i was down at my aunt's for thanksgiving and she took me to have dinner at her friends house

    i went into the garage to help take out the wine and dead center in the backwall, as the first thing you would see if you drove your car in

    was a poorly drawn picture of kakashi from naruto

    there was no indication that anyone who had lived in that house was under 30

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    His mum couldn't be bothered listening to all the dialogue options, she just heard there was money in the garage and went straight there.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    did you take a picture of it mensch

    I would love to see a picture of that poorly drawn kakashi

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    I ACTUALLY DID but its on my phone and my wire is packed away in my luggage

    ill PM it to you later as well as the frog whose life i saved from that same event (@antimatter did i ever send you the frogpic)

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    can we make this the general 'parents suck at technology' thread

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    I think you mightve

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    parents just don't understand

    quantum computing

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Gatsby wrote: »
    This week on Mom Effect...

    :^:

    Switch Friend Code: SW-6680-6709-4204


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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Gatsby wrote: »
    This week on Mom Effect...

    :^:

    and yet nobody appreciated my joke

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    Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    I've had to regularly show my mother how to copy and paste

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    SassoriSassori Registered User regular
    Dex Dynamo wrote: »
    I've had to regularly show my mother how to copy and paste

    My mother actually took down notes on how to do this.

    They are on giant loose-leaf paper that is taped to the side of the computer stand.

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    LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    My mum just recently said that she found out that using all caps while sending someone an email or a text mean that you were shouting.

    Lalabox on
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    Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    i've been teaching my old man how to text

    watching him hunt and peck for letters with his index finger was brutally painful

    grabbing his phone and imitating using both thumbs, the look on his face was that of the caveman discovering fire, the wheel, and a chimpanzee using a stick to fish for ants all at once

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I have a very important question:

    I just had a dream wherein I played a flute.

    Does that mean I am gay?

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    LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    Hey chico, since you are here, what was that "I'm a spaceman" song that you used for one of your forum battle thingies?

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    more like stow(ing shit in a locked garage he can't open) racer

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    i've been teaching my old man how to text

    watching him hunt and peck for letters with his index finger was brutally painful

    grabbing his phone and imitating using both thumbs, the look on his face was that of the caveman discovering fire, the wheel, and a chimpanzee using a stick to fish for ants all at once

    I literally cannot be in the same room while my mom is typing

    she's been using a computer for longer than I've been alive and she still does two fingered pecking, and slowly too

    just

    urgh

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    Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I have a very important question:

    I just had a dream wherein I played a flute.

    Does that mean I am gay?

    depends

    was the flute covered in skin?

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    A couple of weeks ago I helped my mom learn to be a better searcher on Google.

    I am honestly contemplating telling both of my parents to just use Bing instead because it seems more idiot proof.

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    LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    Thank you chico.

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Houk wrote: »
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I have a very important question:

    I just had a dream wherein I played a flute.

    Does that mean I am gay?

    depends

    was the flute covered in skin?

    I don't think so.

    I was also the assistant coach to a little league team, though.

    If that helps.

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    A couple of weeks ago I helped my mom learn to be a better searcher on Google.

    I am honestly contemplating telling both of my parents to just use Bing instead because it seems more idiot proof.

    how can you be a bad searcher on Google

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    I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    why the fuck is this still open compared to the fun threads that get locked all the time

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    Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    Shush you'll jinx it

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    A couple of weeks ago I helped my mom learn to be a better searcher on Google.

    I am honestly contemplating telling both of my parents to just use Bing instead because it seems more idiot proof.

    how can you be a bad searcher on Google

    I was searching for "what does bill murray whisper at the end of lost in translation" the other day, and after "what does", one of the autocomplete options was "what does my name mean"

    I laughed pretty hard

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    ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    ...and your name meant?

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    George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    why the fuck is this still open compared to the fun threads that get locked all the time

    agree

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    tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    recently i had to explain to my mother what a pixel was

    because she wanted to print a 4x6 of some 100x80 picture that she had reduced at one point to 'save space'

    she has a 750gb hard drive on her laptop

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    I'm so proud of my mother for learning how computers and smart phones work after I moved out of the house.

    She used to have my sister or I check her email for her because doing it herself was intimidating. She was afraid that clicking in the wrong place or hitting the wrong key on the keyboard would real the computer or something.

    My father didn't help, since he would act like an expert on all things while saying it was my video games that were putting viruses on the computer, not the weird porn sites he was visiting.

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    George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »

    My father didn't help, since he would act like an expert on all things while saying it was my video games that were putting viruses on the computer, not the weird porn sites he was visiting.

    All dads are the same in this

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »

    My father didn't help, since he would act like an expert on all things while saying it was my video games that were putting viruses on the computer, not the weird porn sites he was visiting.

    All dads are the same in this

    They are until you show them a list of their browser history.

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