I love my laptop!

As many of you know, I have an interesting greeting when I turn my laptop on. I can setup what I want the nice computer voice to say to me. When I realized this I decided to type in something motivational, so when it turns on it says "Welcome Adam, you incredible hunk of humanity". I've enjoyed having this in the solitude of my own room with an occasional roommate hearing it. It's been pretty funny. I thought it might, though, really come back to bite me.

I was in my excel class this afternoon and I needed to transfer a file from my laptop to the computer I was working on. I unzipped my laptop case and tried to transfer the file by email. The internet wasn't working and the computer just seemed really slow. So I pulled out my flash drive and went to put it in my laptop. Just then it started talking to me, and of course the volume was all the way up. "Welcome Adam" it said. I took drastic measures as it blared through the quiet classroom and shut my laptop immediately. Little did I realize I should have hit the mute button because shutting it doesn't stop it when it's malfunctioning. There was nothing I could do as I sat there listening to "you incredible hunk of humanity" blasted so that anyone within 10 feet could hear it clearly.

Everyone felt a bit too awkward to comment at the time, except for the girl next to me who was laughing her head off. She commented on what a nice greeting I had. I simply replied that we all need a boost to our day every once in a while and it might as well come from my computer. It was really hard not to laugh the rest of the class period.