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My mother-in-law stayed over and was having trouble understanding how to use the Brita water filter on the kitchen sink faucet.
In frustration she told my wife that the filter should just always be on. My wife tried explaining to her that you wouldn't want to filter water that you were using to wash a dish because the filters cost money...and she saw her mother just stop listening. As it was described to me, she just walked away and clearly didn't want to understand.
That's a faucet-mounted water filter with three settings: filtered, normal unfiltered, and spray unfiltered. However, the complexities of it frustrated my MIL to the point of ignoring her daughter.
She's also the most tech-literate of the parents.