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| CANADA'S SOURCE FOR COMPUTER HUMOUR, PARODY, AND SATIRE
GRANDMA'S HOUSE--Your grandmother really appreciated getting your old computer, the Pentium II you gave her three years ago. When you upgraded, she was more than happy to take the old machine off of your hands. She'd never had a computer before, and she was looking forward to learning how to use it.
Well, she's had that computer for three years, and until now, you hadn't even given it a second thought. She never asked you for any software, or complained about it crashing. She never called needing anything installed, upgraded, or replaced. You'd thought she just put it away in a closet, and well, you know how older people are with technology, she probably never even turned it on. But granny called you up the other day, sounding slightly distressed. She said that you should probably come over and look at the computer. There was a serious problem. You wondered to yourself, what could have gone wrong? Did she delete the system files? Everyone's done that at one time or another. Was she having problems installing a game? Did she just need it moved to another room? Grandma probably got a virus, from opening up an attachment on her email. Funny, you don't remember hooking her up on the Internet, and she's never emailed you before. Nah, it's more likely that she's just crashed the machine, or the hard-drive failed. After all, the machine was built "way back in the 90's." When you arrived at grandma's, she was very quiet, and she had a haunted look in her eyes. You'd never seen her that way before. With only a quick greeting, she led you upstairs to the sewing-room, which was now a combination sewing/computer room. In the corner was small desk, and the computer was sitting on top of it. Cute, she had put doilies underneath it so that it wouldn't scratch the desk. The computer was turned on and appeared to be running okay. On the screen you noticed nothing unusual--it seems that grandma was playing solitaire. Well, that's not surprising. Millions of people play that game everyday. It comes with every version of Microsoft Windows, it's simple to play, and yes, it's highly addictive. You asked your grandmother what the problem was, and she hesitantly pointed to the lower-right corner of the computer screen, and slowly began to sob. You looked, and all you saw was the cumulative score in Solitaire. She had been playing "Vegas Style", and she was down quite a bit of money. $1,428,952! Wow, it must have taken a long time to get a score like that! You bet it would take years to lose a million bucks. Maybe...three years?! "Oh
my precious grandson," she cried. "I don't know how I'm going
to be able to pay all of that back."
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