i walked into the den the other day to see my father rubbing the mouse on his head i asked him what he was doing and he said "trying to get better reception for the internet"
A Christmas Larceny
I used to work for a chinese computer company that no longer exists; one Christmas Eve a man comes into the store right as we are closing and counting money and insists that we start up the Point of Sale system again and sell him the video card he reserved online. We tell him that the computers have been shut down and all the transactions of the day batched and sent to the credit card vendor. He keeps telling us that it's already paid for etc. and we keep telling him we can't process any more transactions until the morning of Dec. 26th. He then takes out a revolver and makes us lay on the floor while he steals the cash drawers and takes off. Turns out he had in fact reserved the video card online and his full name, address and phone number were in the system along with his email address; i bet his New Year sucked.
Today my mom called sounding very excited. When I asked her what had happened, she replied "I know what I'm getting your brother for christmas. The computer just told me that I won a Wii!"
I was bringing my boyfriend home for the first time to introduce him to my parents. We were talking and he said to me, "Oh wait, did you see my picture on FaceBook?" And I was about to reply when my mother jumped in and said, "Facebook? We have a Facebook! One second hold on!" She ran upstairs, leaving all of us in confusion (everyone knows my mother is horrible at... Read More »
I went to my parents house for a visit to find that my dad had put an aluminum pie plate over the wireless router "to stop the neighbours from stealing the internet"
I convinced my mom that the lighter app on the iPhone actually heated up the phone. She was skeptical at first, but after 10 seconds of the top of my phone on a light bulb when she wasn't looking, thoroughly convinced her the iPhone can do anything.


