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the good people at honor reached out to sponsor a piece featuring their new honor 6x smartphone so they send it over and sitting there bored at a family function putting the gears to the phone's dual lens camera Chiron 665 octa-core CPU four gigs of RAM and 33 40 milliamp hour battery and on my in-laws house right and an argument breaks out at the Scrabble table and meanwhile I'm testing they're going why don't you just google it but it's not all bad thanks to my entire evening of eye rolling face palming and full-body cringing we all get to experience this fantastic video eight of the worst ways the older generation makes my head explode brought to you by the honor 6x number one my dad seems completely unable to wrap his head around the fact that making phone calls ain't what it used to be he still it is 2017 he still tries to crank call me quit Coleman like I'll answer my phone and he'll start pretending to order of pizza or I'll call him and he'll answer with some goofy accent trying to convince me that I got the wrong number dude I know it's you I've had caller ID on my phone since I was in high school and I know I didn't miss dial your number nobody dials numbers anymore remember - I needed to get to my grandma's new place so I even proactively like I'm ready for this I proactively structure the question like so hey can you give me your new address grand and to my dismay she like every other old person on the planet proceeds to launch into this elaborate play-by-play of the route don't go past the giant tiger then left at the spoon shaped rock and you'll see this really friendly young man water in the grass well well that's Chester the neighbor's son in Locksley and he works at the co-op okay this is not a quest grandma I'm not retaining any of this I'm not listening please for the love of all that is good tell me the address so I can open my Maps app and key it in number three thanks to simple interfaces like honors emotion UI smartphones are getting easier and easier to use but just because an older person learns to use the internet doesn't mean they really get how to internet and we've all suffered the consequences of this one so here's a few etiquette tips if I don't copy paste your status update you posted it doesn't mean I'm not your true friends that funny chain letter well if the memes have Ebaum's world watermarks they're probably a little dated and auntie thank you so much for the urgent cybersecurity advisory telling me to beware of people calling and pretending they work for Microsoft I know your hearts in the right place but please just oh please number four why is it that every time I go somewhere with my dad he's always trying to get me to memorize what section of the parking garage Rin so that we don't lose the car okay what's the color orange okay what's the number a shoot I forget let's go back look I'm Way ahead of your dad just take a picture and move on it doesn't consume film anymore and we don't have to wait for it to get developed number five you convinced your mother-in-law to get a cell phone but she refuses to get cellular data because it's expensive and Lisa needs braces well you know what I have to say that but data plan it's like $10 a month less on pink and you know what else is expensive getting lost two blocks from your grandson's birthday party and spending 15 minutes on the phone with me trying to figure out where the heck you are which way is west and which auto record to drive towards to get back on the right path you aren't even supposed to be on the phone when you're driving number 6 my dad knows how to text me he even sent this in messages and pictures over hangouts but he doesn't seem to grasp the added utility that leave modern mediums have over snail mail so every three to five days he sends me an epic wall of text with where he's staying the recent weather best wishes for the kids and then he signs his name at the bottom and I'm like pops it's instant messaging I can replied it right away you can reply right away and we can have a conversation do your relatives ever send you snail mail and then text you to tell you to expect it and why did you number seven my auntie still brings her digital point-and-shoot that runs on double-a batteries to family functions even though the camera on her phone is way better way easier to use and easy to share pictures with it just seems like it's hard for some older people to internalize just how many single-use devices modern phones have replaced I mean what's next a calculator at the restaurant to split the bill damn it Verne there is an app for that and finally number eight right next to the landline phone at my grandparents house it's a wall power adapter for the cell phone that lives in the wall with the phone next to it plugged in 100% of the time when they're at home sometimes I even see them scan their while they're talking on it do you realize that modern phones like this one can last for like two days before they die why not just plug it in when you go to bed well that way I always know where it is you don't go anywhere Lin just keep it in your pocket and that way you'll know where it is and you'll actually be safer in the event of a nasty fall or a freak accident with a knitting needle or whatever so thanks to honor for sponsoring this list of ways that people are bound to misuse their awesome technology you can check out the link to where to buy the honor 6x in the video description and while you're down there drop your favorite my family sucks at text stories in the comments below and maybe you'll see them featured in a future episode thank you so much for watching