Scribes Valley Publishing

U-WRITE-IT RESULTS

"LIVE TO IMAGINE!"

Results of U-Write-It Week 280

The young man looked up. "Your computer is beeping at you because it knows you're..."

...holding a cup.

It's a cup overflowing with coffee and fluff,
Put it down NOW, before you spill that stuff!
The keyboard is sensitive and coffee will kill it
The worst thing will happen when you spill it!
Sticky and yicky stuff all through the keys
As bad as last week when you sneezed!
Carry it away and put down the cup!
Or the computer will beep every time you look up!

by Carolyn Ann Aish, Inglewood, New Zealand

...daydreaming again."

Lorinda laughed at the salesclerk, then peered at his name tag. "Good try, Mitch. But, first of all, I'm not in the market for this computer, or any computer. And, second of all, I'm not daydreaming."

"So . . . what? Were you in a trance or something?"

"Nope. Just thinking. But, I want to thank you for making me laugh," Lorinda pushed her cart past the electronics display, "I needed that."

"We aim to please," the smiling salesclerk said, giving her a mock salute.

Lorinda looked around at the flowers, the gifts, the colorful placards proclaiming 'Celebrate Mom - Mother's Day is Sunday!'

To herself she whispered, "Ah, Mom, it's my first Mother's Day without you."

Blinking back watery eyes she shook her head, then added with a chuckle, "So I hope those angels put on one heckuva great party for you this Sunday."

by Daphne Rice, Portland, OR

...about to spill your coffee on it!"

Dawn felt like hitting him. He was the new computer geek in the office but he acted like he was the Chief Executive. She was ten years his senior, but he seemed oblivious to that.

"It's fine. I am not spilling my coffee. See! It's beeping because something's wrong. It beeps every ten minutes, then it freezes up about a minute later and I have to shut it down."

"Hmm...." Tommy hummed.

"What does Hmm mean?"

"It means, Hmm you may need a new computer until I figure out the mystery. We'll have to order one and shut this down. If it's a virus it could be contaminating our whole network."

"You can't take it yet. I've a report due tomorrow." Dawn felt her stomach tighten.

"Hmm....better talk to the boss or borrow someone's desk," Tommy suggested as he pulled the plug.

by Pamala Johnson, Des Moines, IA

...smart enough to set the preferences to notify you about incoming email." He added a bit smugly, "The real brains behind any computer are human."

He was right. But I didn't remember having set any preferences. Sure, I'd pulled down several menus and clicked around, but I didn't have any clue what I'd been doing.

"So, can you fix it?"

The young man looked perplexed. "Fix it?"

"Yeah, fix it. That beeping drives me nuts."

"It's 50 bucks an hour to trouble-shoot "

I scanned the keyboard in search of an icon. Saving myself 50 bucks with the touch of a finger, I hit the mute key.

Picking up my laptop, I headed out of the shop. At the door, I turned back and grinned at the young man. "My computer is no longer beeping because it knows this human is smart enough to notify it to shut up!"

by Ric Hardson, US

Return to U-Write-It

Scribes Valley Publishing Company
Knoxville, TN