March 30, 2009

My friend Marjon

I am just home from my friends Marjon, she is a really good friend and I have known her for years. Twice a week I go over and I help her clean as there is a lot of things she can not do as she is physically handicapped after some cleaning we sit down and bitch for hours about men and children over a few cups of coffee.
Today after our regular bitching she wanted to send an ecard to her family in Scotland which is sweet and nice but here is the run down on that. Marjon has only been using a computer for a matter of weeks so her typing is slow, as we all are when we first learn to use computers, also things you learn over time like googling and such.
Today I just about wet myself laughing when teaching her something about computers, she was looking up ecards, she picked one and she typed the message in then it come to sending it, she was screaming for me as I was in the kitchen making a coffee.

"Tracey the bloody mouse the F&*%ing thing it is really F&*%$ing pissing me off and BEEP BEEP BEEP" you get the idea. then she started on how useless a "F&*^ing mouse pad was as you can never use it"
So I told her to calm down I would come to help her.
I walk about the corner towards to computer and what do I see? My friend her right arm somewhere behind her and her left hand under the mouse.
I asked her what the hell she was doing and she replied
"Well I had to move the mouse so far down the page and the desk was not long enough"
I looked at her all puzzled and then it took a minute before it registered, she did not know exactly how a mouse worked and she had moved the mouse all the way along the desk and OFF the desk, using her hand as a "desk" to scroll the mouse to the bottom right corner of her screen. I was laughing so hard it got her even more frustrated and the rest of the morning was a lesson on how to use a mouse and why there is suck a thing as a mouse pad (not that I ever use one)
Marjon your doing well, I have all the time to teach you about computers but it is not worth getting your body into knots!

With today's events with the computer it reminded me of this video..

2 comments:

Varun said...

lol that was a pretty funny episode :)
But these kinds of things do happen when we learn new things.I'm sure you are helping your friend get better at this :)

cheers
varun

Cashmere said...

LOL! Your friend is just comical..
She's really cute... lol!
I would have laughed my ass off.. ;P