How do I open a word document?

Yes, indeed we are in year 2013 and there are full professor advisors that ask:
"How do I open a new word document?"

So I go ahead and show him how to go through start and navigate towards MS word and open a new word document. He takes a piece of paper and writes down all I say. I also make him a shortcut of MS word and place it in the middle of his crowded desktop and tell him if he clicks on the shortcut he will start MS word.

Two weeks later, he asks the same question from my office mate this time already having a word document open in front of him. My office mates tries to tell him how to go through the menus to open a new document but before he gets a chance my stupid advisor closes the program. So he also starts explaining to the stupid advisor the simple task of opening a word document. While he is doing that though he realizes the Word icon in the middle of the desktop and tells the stupid advisor to click on it!

He tells me his story and I tell him mine and we have a long laugh together.

Nobody knows how many other students went through the same story with my stupid advisor. But one is clear: a tenured faculty must know how do perform simple tasks like this. It is indeed a shame to the scientific community that such fossils are allowed to supervise grad students.