Again, thank you for all the comments. Your support lifts a significant weight off my shoulders.
Let me first reassure everyone: If you are reading this, I can guarantee that I am not your husband. I know this because my wife is afraid of computers at best and thinks they are the spawn of Satan at worst.
She claims it is the result of a supposedly traumatic computer class she was forced to endure as a child. Fast forward to today, and you will see that her only interaction with them is via a Hotmail account I set up for her many years ago. She can only open it because I placed a "Hotmail" shortcut on the desktop in the middle of the screen. For the record, here is a list of things involving computers that confound her:
1. Opening attachments
Hotmail's procedure for this involves just following a couple of "click here" links. She is never sure if that is what she is supposed to do.
2. Forwarding e-mails
She asks me how. Every. Single. Time.
3. Opening a document
Me - "I placed the file right on the desktop next to the Hotmail icon. Just double-click on it, and the document will open."
Her - "I don't understand."
4. Surfing the web
When she wants to know our bank balance. I have to log on and show her. Every. Single. Time.
Yes, I have the site bookmarked. Yes, she knows the password (or at least I told her. She has probably long since forgotten). She has managed to click on links in her e-mail, so maybe there is hope.
5. Anything. Just...anything.
Plus, everything I'm doing must be a "game". Checking our investments? Game. Reading the news? Game. Editing videos of the kids? Game.
Of course she never sees me edit this blog. ;)
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you know, i love reading this. i check every day (multiple times, even!) to see if you have updated. i have a love for your wife, i must admit (and i am not a lesbian!). she is so cute and naive. and i love you for being a good husband to her. she is lucky to have you, but i am also sure that you are lucky to have her. :)
keep posting. you are brilliant!
Thanks for reading!
Sigh...
Yes, she is actually very cute. Which is probably why I am able to tolerate so much.
While you think being a Luddite is cute, I assure you that that makes her the employee from hell. Can you imagine anyone having to work with her? Please, for her own sake, sign her up for a compueter course.
I don't think it is cute, actually. It is quite annoying, as I have to do everything for her. She refuses to learn new things.
As for being the employee from hell, you may be right, but she is a stay-at-home mom, so she will be self-employeed for the near future.
But I still think she is cute.
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