I have given up the hope, that people show the same interest or enthusiasm for things as I do.
People tend to forget and ignore things they aren't interested in. They simply put it into the "totally unimportant" drawer of their minds. I for example completely ignore the existence of mobile phones and refuse to busy myself with it. I have one but I rarely use it.
My mother for example, is calling me on the phone all the time, when she wants to know, how to change the language settings on her DVD player or why she cannot open an e-mail attachment on her PC.
She could solve it all on her own, using the owner's manual or help functions (she can use all her kitchen appliances after all) but then she'd had to put her mind to it and she simply doesn't want that. She isn't interested, so she doesn't consider spending any time on problem solution and prefers calling me instead. And if I'm not available, she simply lets the matter rest, for days or weeks, if necessary.
If my mother wants to buy new table napkins, though, she borrows 5 different varieties from the shop to see, which fits best to the table cloth and the dishes.
Talking about setting priorities in life...
Sad thing is, that her husband is the same. Not even slightly interested in technical things, probably even less than her. For example I had to tell him, how to use the voice control programming for his Mercedes's sat nav. He's had the car for 2 years and never used the voice control. And it's an optional extra he paid for! He even agrees, that fiddling around with the manual search function in the display is a lot more distracting and complicated but he simply refuses to learn something new.
My cousin, on the other hand, is very interested in cars. I introduced her to Top Gear and she loves it, even though her English is limited. But she absolutely refuses to take a drill and mount some shelves on the wall. She always waits, until a man drops by, even though in theory she knows exactly, how it is done. But she doesn't bother and let's stuff from IKEA lying in the corner for months, if no man has time to do it for her.
Anyway... with all those things in mind and some experience in life, that's why I rather waited in the rain.