On a recent business trip, I poured an entire bottle of water all over my laptop. This was troubling for several reasons. First, it was troubling because I did it! Not my kids, not a clumsy dog, not a terrorist. Me. Second, it was a careless mistake that cost thousands of dollars. And finally, it was troubling because while away, I was without my laptop, access to the Internet, pictures, music, movies and work files for FIVE days! Not one day, FIVE days! This is an unreasonable amount of time for anyone who lives on their laptop. It is not a situation I wish upon even the most annoying of people, especially when away from home, in the middle of nowhere. With no e-contact with friends or family, I was completely ALONE and miserable. All because of a bottle of water. Actually, I exaggerated; it was only about 2/3rds of a bottle of water. And did I mention that I was the one who spilled it all over my laptop? By the way, if you think Fiji Natural Artesian bottled water is better than regular bottled water when soaking your MacBook, you are wrong.
Too ashamed to admit that I performed this pathetic pour job, I went into my friendly neighbourhood Apple store and proceeded to blame my kids. They’ll forgive me. More important is the lesson I learned that will, in the end, be to their benefit. I decided that no contemporary human being should be voluntarily denied access to their special e-partner in life, whatever it may be: laptop, Blackberry, iPhone, or, yes... even child sized, handheld gaming device. (Notice I did not mention Nintendo DS by name- I didn’t want there to be any suspicion that I was receiving unethical payola for name-dropping in this blog).
Anyway, I spend a lot of time giving my kids restrictions on the amount of time they are allowed to use their gaming devices. Having suffered so dreadfully myself now, however, I can’t help but worry that someday they, too, will find themselves in the same debilitating seclusion. So, they no longer have to slink off to dark corners of the house to sneak in a couple of minutes of e-quality time. They have free will to play, and are playing at will. Which is handy when you have to wait in line for a Flu shot for seven hours.
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