My Dad was always eager to keep up with the latest business stuff, so he not only got into computers (despite his almost complete incomprehension of them), but he even ended up doing a couple of things on them that I don't bother with...such as talking live to his business friend in Ottawa, using headphones and microphone. (this was the "friend" he milked for 3 years of free work and computer assistance).

My mother, on the other will never touch a computer or have any interest in them. She won't even put call answering on her phone...despite the fact that she has three friends who drive her batty by phoning many times a day, usually managing to interrupt her when she's trying to cook a meal. I told her she could get around that problem by using call answering, and offered to set it up for her.

No way. She resists any form of change like it was a foreign invasion of the country. Everything must remain exactly the same. So there are no extra features on my mother's phone. None whatsoever. No call display. No call answer. No call waiting. No nothing. It could be a phone from 1970 to all intents and purposes.

Oh, and she would fight her way through a snake pit to reach it when it rings... ;-) She's afraid it might be "an emergency". No emergency situation has ever been communicated over that phone in living memory...but still, you can never tell when it might happen, right?