OK, it's a 2 parter.
A, I bought my grandparents an Amazon Echo Dot as a gift from me to them on my birthday, finally got to give it to them today. But during the process of setting the thing up (which is far more complicated than the advertising would have you believe), I often felt like i couldn't get a word in edgewise between the conversation of my grandparents, my dad, and my uncle, to ask necessary questions or explain ideas. My grandparents are massive technophobes, i knew they wouldn't be able to set any of this up or know how to operate the Echo if i didn't explain it properly to them, so i was desperately trying to get it all to the point i thought they could get enough use out of it for now until i can come back and set up other features. But it felt like i kept being ignored in my efforts to do so.
B, Discussing this in the car ride home with my dad, i felt like i was being a petulant, self-congratulatory child, because listening to myself talk, it was like i was saying "everyone drop what they're doing and pay attention to me and the awesome thing i bought for you!". My dad kept trying to convince me that i'd just wanted to help, and that i hadn't done anything wrong, but the more he made me have this conversation, the worse i felt, which just made him keep going trying to persuade me not to feel that way. So despite my day going well, and the good i did being appreciated, i'm mad at myself and feel like a stupid douche.
