Mary Had A Little Mouse
Mary got a used computer about three years ago. My late husband and I bought her a copy of XP Home. Since then I've been her IT Girl. She's come a long way. Last spring Mary and I got on the bus to go shopping. This is what she had to say.

"Ugh! My 'Bookworm game froze last night! I had to uninstall it then reinstall it. What a bother!"
"Did you save your high scores?"
"Oh yes. I answered the pop-up thingy so I wouldn't lose them.
Everything was working fine after that....so there you go.
I updated my AVG but boy it took ages. That AOL is so slow. They really have problems sometimes. The other day I had to use the repair thingy and I still couldn't get online. I remembered what you said about booting it...and I do feel like giving the thing a good boot sometimes!"
"You got online after you restarted it?"
"Yeeees, so there you go. I did a defrag too. Huh-huh, I like to watch it sometimes. This morning I typed a letter in WORD to my brother. I put a nice flower gif on the bottom. He'll like that. I printed it....does it ever look nice. Remind me to get stamps will ya?"
By this time a few passengers within earshot are looking at her.
"My god, you type like the wind Mary. I'll never forget the first time
you sat down at your new computer. Where did you learn to type?"
"I took a commercial course in high school...typing and shorthand. Boy, my hands hurt for a while...then I did a lot of typing at my first job when I was 16, at the bank in 1944."

Yep, my Mother-in-law, Mary, will be 82 in November...
'so there you go'.
(OGH, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 2:20, 1 reply)

Awww
So there is hope for them. Remarkable.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 11:07, closed)