Love in the Present Tense (2007)
“As Mitch liked to say, I’d graduated quickly from the first-grader games and moved on to using a joystick to save the universe by repelling alien invasions.
“I gotta have the seventeen-inch monitor this morning,” she said. “Here. You can use the old laptop.”
She set it on my little desk. The guys actually gave me my own desk. How cool is that?
“But it doesn’t have my games installed.”
She held up a disk. “I put ’em on floppy for you. I got you all set up.”
Then she started working. But she was ...talking to me at the same time, trying to explain how to find my games on the A drive. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do this, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to tell her. The screen was just too little.
“Double-click ‘my computer,’” she said.
“I don’t know what that is.”
“The icon that looks like a little computer.”
“I can’t find it,” I said.
“Upper left of your desktop.”
“Oh. Okay.” I could see icons, just not well enough to know if they looked like little computers.MoreLess
“I gotta have the seventeen-inch monitor this morning,” she said. “Here. You can use the old laptop.”
She set it on my little desk. The guys actually gave me my own desk. How cool is that?
“But it doesn’t have my games installed.”
She held up a disk. “I put ’em on floppy for you. I got you all set up.”
Then she started working. But she was ...talking to me at the same time, trying to explain how to find my games on the A drive. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do this, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to tell her. The screen was just too little.
“Double-click ‘my computer,’” she said.
“I don’t know what that is.”
“The icon that looks like a little computer.”
“I can’t find it,” I said.
“Upper left of your desktop.”
“Oh. Okay.” I could see icons, just not well enough to know if they looked like little computers.MoreLess
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