Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Gifted Dad

With a genuinely puzzled look on my face, I looked back at the mother in line behind me and asked "Do you have any idea why this isn't working?"

It was early in the morning and I was dropping Lukas off at the before school program he goes to a couple of days a week.  Granted, I am rarely doing drop-off at this particular location.  That would be Mrs. LIAYF's job, while I am dropping off Annabelle at her daycare several miles away.

But this particular morning I had both of them.  And I was in a hurry after learning last minute that I was needed to do his drop-off as well.

So as I entered the building with my baby girl in one arm, and the mother I mentioned above - acting like she was also in a hurry - queued up behind me, I approached the check in screen and pressed the button to get the process started.

Nothing happened.

I then pressed the button again with the same result.  Then again, and again.  "What the....?" I thought to myself.

It was at that point I turned to the mother behind me, as described above, and asked what I was doing wrong.  I was obviously stumped.

"You might want to try using the mouse" was her reply.

Doh!

For the Gifted Dad!

Yeah, like an idiot I had been pressing the button on the computer monitor over and over expecting it to respond like our Kindle Fire tablet.

"I guess we live in a touch screen age!" I sheepishly replied, feeling pretty foolish.

Thankfully, as I mentioned, I don't drop Lukas off at that location very often.

I'm sure she won't remember me.

7 comments:

  1. Great... Helping the image of dad bloggers by overcoming the "buffoon" label. Thanks.

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  2. Well that label seemed to fit me...on that particular morning. In general I am only slightly buffonish.

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  3. That Far Side Cartoon is perfect.

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  4. Agree it is fit for this blog awesome Dad I think your family is very pruod of you.

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  5. A very epic story. love your blog. thanks for sharing.
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  6. Great story. Its quite funny on how he mistakenly thought of it as a tablet too.

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  7. It happened to me once but not on a desktop. I thought too that her laptop is a touch screen. lol! Too embarrassing on my part!

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