The Idiot Switch

I have been having a bit of trouble with my laptop lately and finally got to taking it over to BestBuy yesterday for their Geek Squad to take a look at it.

I know there are some people who think they are in heaven when they walk through the store's doors and see the incredible array of 21st century technology, but for someone who was born before computers existed and lived the first six years of his life without even a television, BestBuy can be intimidating.

So here I was standing on line with my laptop while some spotty kid hardly out of diapers took his time to solve everyone's computer problems. I was there for some time waiting for my turn to share my woes and noticed that some maladies were so grave that the sick machines were taken into care for periods of at least seven days.

Thankfully, my problem was much easier to solve - there was a miracle cure. As I finally stepped up to the counter and announced that my mousepad had suddenly died, the kid showed me a little button above the pad. "Do you know what this is?" he asked. Confessing my ignorance, I was further humiliated as he explained, "It's the on/of switch for your mousepad!"

What can I say? I'm a pastor - each to his own!