Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Can you hear me now?

So, the dude is out of state on a job interview* and, being the super duper nice person I am, I made the ultimate sacrifice of loaning him my precious iPod Touch (loaded with a bunch of super duper fun games, music and books) for the trip.

He calls me during his layover to ask how to turn it off.

me: There's a button on the top

him: on the side?

me: on the top

him: on the bottom?

me: on the top

him: there's no button on the top, do you mean on the side?

me: On. The. Top.

him: underneath? 

me (staring at my phone): ...

him: there's no button on the top.

me: ...

I mean, it's a fucking iPod, not fifty acres of land, there's not that much space to cover. Of course, this is the same guy who practically needs a road map when I tell him the new bottle of ketchup is in the door of the refrigerator. No, I don't know which damn shelf, it's in the door of the refrigerator, you're not having to excavate an Egyptian tomb...

him: The one on the front?

me: ... 

him: ...

me: it's... on the top

him: ...

me: okay, if you're holding it on your hand, like you're playing skee-ball on it, there are two sides, and a top and a bottom...


him: ... oh, okay, I found it

me (looking around for the hidden cameras): ...


(it could be noted that I personally didn't know where that button was until a week ago when The Kid showed me... but that was just a simple "there's the button", "oh, okay, thanks", not some entire Laurel and Hardy spisode... he also had to help me beat a couple levels of Angry Birds, but that's neither here nor there)

*not that we don't love love love this place, but defense cuts don't make for a whole lot of job security

Labels: first world problems