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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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By China at 11:07 AM

My mother wanted to take my father to the movies for his birthday and she was trying to look up the movies in the paper. I told her there is a much easier way to get the information really quickly. I sent her online to look up movie information and she had no clue it was that simple. I told her if she was interested I had seen a great movie torrent site that would allow her to download movies and play them on her computer whenever she wanted. She looked on the site while she was on the phone with me and she just couldn't believe that it was this simple. She even found a place where she could order the tickets in advance for the show that she wanted to go see, but I warned her that the tickets could be more expensive that way and that she needed to find out what the surcharge was for doing this.

My mother is becoming more computer savvy, but the truth is for her age and her late introduction to the computer age, she has done really well for herself. She can shop online, make bill payments online, and do banking online. When it comes to shopping on Ebay though she gets a little bit confused and usually calls me or sends me an e-mail telling me to bid on something or find something for her. It is funny but I guess certain things are still a little challenging for her. She tries really hard, so I don't really complain the few times a year that she makes me hop on the computer and bid for her. I figure it is the least I can do for her, after all she is my mother.

Anyway, she got her tickets squared away for his birthday and she did buy and print them online, because she didn't want to have to wait when she got to the theater. She was going to take him to dinner at his favorite restaurant first, and she didn't want to have to rush through dinner just to be sure that they got into the movie. That is the purpose of the service, not to mention that she said it only cost about $1.50 per ticket, which really isn't a bad price at all.