You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: To intervene or not... man card theft

in Reflectionslast month

I'd have done the same bozz.

Like no joke my wife tries to get me to help my father-in-law all the time and I tell her no, let him keep his pride. My father in law is getting old, but the women sure do fuss over him in our family, and I always feel bad for him when sometimes I'm marched over to help him with what he seems like jobs he has handled easily.

Anyway, good for you. Leave the young couple alone. If it were me I'd have waited until they finished, took them over a beer and started up a discussion and during it, casually mention how long I've been doing it and the tools I acquired.

Then if they wanted help they'd ask :)

Sort:  

Yeah, that would be a good way to handle it. I suck at small talk though, so I likely would have just looked like a moron. It is a bit sad though when your parents can't do the things they used to. My dad used to be quite techy and now he surprises me sometimes with his inability to handle certain things on his computer.