Cherry and the BestBuy Computer Hospital

So I turned on my pretty pretty red laptop over the weekend. With fingers poised to work on my next gossip inspired masterpiece, I logged in, and nothing!! It was frozen, I clicked and clicked but nothing. So I turned it off, turned it back on, and tried again. NOTHING! I freaked, tears of fear stung my eyes, what was wrong with my laptop? Franticly I tried to save my precious little lifeline, not remembering that I am not the most computer savy person on the planet. I can e-mail and turn the thing off and on, that's pretty much the limit. I only a year ago purchased my first digital camera. This was not going to be a good weekend.

I rushed my wounded laptop to the BestBuy Computer Hospital and held it's limp body out to Dr. Geek Squad. "Save her!" I shouted at Dr. Geek. "Please she's hurt and I don't know what to do". Dr. Geek much to calmly asked what was happening with my laptop. I explained that the only possible thing that could have happened is that some demonic being had crawled into Cherry, (my laptops name, red laptop, Cherry, get it?) and had taken over her spirit. That part friends is no exsaguration, I actually told the guy a demon had hijacked my computer. So I shouldn't have been surprised when Dr. Geek just stared at me. Honestly, he looked a little annoyed. Never mind the line forming behind me, my entire written life and soul laid in my hands and he had to save her. Months and months worth of work, my manuscript, and my ability to blog was slipping away.

So I centered myself, busted out a Yoga pose, and focused my mind on saving Cherry, thus saving my world. I explained the freezing and the inability to click on anything. Dr. Geek scribbled some stuff down on a note pad, snatched Cherry away from me, and stuck a form in my face. "Sign this, we will run some tests and get back to you in 7 to 10 days. At that point we will tell you what we can do". WHAT? 7 to 10 days for tests and then who knows how long for repairs. He was saying this to a girl who carries her laptop in a matching red bag wherever she goes. Who knows when a manuscript idea or a story idea will hit you. 7 to 10 days without one of my appendages, it couldn't happen. When I asked if there was a way to speed up the process the twerp, I mean Dr. Twerp Geek laughed at me and said, "Yeah, I don't think so". Yeah I don't think so, what a heartless heartless man.

I left BestBuy Computer Hospital alone and sad. A little piece of me being shoved on a shelf for testing at a later date. I am not sure when I got Cherry back if she will be the same old girl I remember. Full of months and months worth of my manuscript. The manuscript that I spent hours of sleepless nights working on. A manuscript I wasn't smart enough to back up onto a zip drive. Stupid! So now I wait for word on my wonderful Laptop Cherry. A notepad in her place in my bag, incase the next great american novel idea hits me. With my fingers crossed that they can save her. So everyone think happy thoughts for a full and speedy recovery for Cherry, sigh, has it been 7 to 10 days yet? Sniff.