by Frank39 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:10 pm
I think that this comes under the heading of mundane.
While in a restaurant last Saturday night with my technophobe brother-in-law and his wife, his wife revealed that she was more than a little concerned about their upcoming week in Lake Garda, Italy.
She knew that they were flying from Gatwick to Verona, but had no idea of how they were getting from Verona airport to their hotel on Lake Garda, or where on Lake Garda it was.
I said that surely they must have had some email communication with the holiday company, it would be on there, e.g. met by company rep and directed to coach transfer, or told to take taxi, bus, or train at their expense.
No, as I said, they are technophobes, don't even own a PC or laptop, my b-I-law's one concession to the 21st. century being the ability to send and receive texts on his ancient Nokia phone.
They got their son to make the reservation for them, on his laptop, and he was out of the country on vacation, due back the night before they were due to leave.
They were praying that there'd be enough time to liaise with him, to get all the info, they don't even know the name of the hotel they're booked into, or its address.
My wife immediately sent her nephew an email from her iPhone, and he promised to send her all the bumf about his parents trip from his laptop to our iMac, then she'd print it off and take it to her brother and his wife.
I'm no brain of Britain, but I cannot conceive of anyone getting into a situation like that, they're hardly senile, both being in their mid fifties.