Turned on my computer a few mornings back; opened Mozilla Firefox.
Then AIM Instant Messaging took over.
It commandeered my keyboard. Insisted I pay attention to it. Logged my son on, and he immediately began getting chatty messages from schoolmates (mostly girls, I believe).
I kept closing the damn thing, and yet it had made itself my home page, so I had to open Explorer in order to get away from it. Every time I went back, there was another chatty message, asking Gabe why he wasn't responding. Eventually, one petulant pre-teen wrote:
"Asshole :P"
I yelled downstairs for Gabe, home because school was canceled because of a snowstorm. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY COMPUTER?"
"Hunh?," he said, in a TV coma.
"GET UP HERE NOW," I barked.
And I wrote back to the petulant pre-teen:
"This is Gabe's dad. Please don't use that language. You never know who may be on the computer."
I then managed to change AIM's demonic behavior.
Too bad I couldn't do the same for the petulant pre-teen.
--T.A.
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