A Funny Story Involving Tech
Maybe have a slightly warped sense of humor as I found this particular story funny mainly as I know the people involved and how technology has impacted their lives for the wrong reasons. For the participants of this story this is far from funny yet maybe one day or maybe not they will laugh and joke about it. They are roughly the same age as myself maybe a bit younger so I guess in their early fifties. They have a daughter and a son and the son is into various technical thigs as he works in IT.
The parents are some what technically challenged like most of us over 50 and when the son mentioned he would link the computers and phones to the house server no one thought anything of it. The mother was happy as now she could gather all the photographs and make a family album online. I would guess the father had no understanding and was probably kept in the dark and just did his own thing letting the family get on with whatever they were doing.
One night the mum was sitting on the couch with her laptop and was going through all the photographs that had been loaded from the various devices. There were loads of kids photographs except some of the kids she did not recognize so she asked the family who they were. The kids had no idea who the other kids were so she asked the dad.
The dad finally owned up and said they were his kids with another woman and obviously all help broke loose. The dad thought the photographs on his phone were safe and the son unknowingly had just ended his parents marriage. You cannot blame the son for this as most likely this other relationship having other kids would have surfaced at some point in the future.
The dad should have paid attention and understood what the son was doing and the consequences of having his other kids photographs on his phone. The parents are now divorced and not really on speaking terms. We get updated by the mum that the dad has recently had another kid and the baby is now 3 months old. I was tempted to ask if she had any pictures, but thought it best to keep quiet.
I know we have something similar in our home or had it and I have never joined it as it is not my thing. If I have a photo or film I think they may like I will send the a link, but unlike the other dad I lead a boring life and I have nothing to hide. I actually do not want to even imagine what it must be like leading two lives and know how stressful it is having two girl friends at once let alone having kids involved. The dad is actually a normal decent type of guy who you would never think was capable of pulling this type of stunt off and do think he would have got away with it if the son had not meddled with the server.
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OMGoodness! That is a crazy story and as long as it isn't you it has happened too, it is quite funny.
"I was tempted to ask if she had any pictures" THAT made me laugh!
Broken hearts are a sad thing, but if that was the case, better to know sooner than later. For him it was "just desserts".
I thought it was funny and yes he got what was coming and so did she as she is not the nicest person going.
The dad really should have thought twice about where he stored those photos.