Picture this.
You’ve finished a proposal. You’re excited about sending it off. It needs to be printed, so to the printer it goes.
And then, halfway through chapter two of the three you need, you run out of paper.
So it’s off to the store and back. And then you notice it. The fact that your faithful printer is making weird little black checkmarks on the page. You test a new piece of paper. Nope, still there.
So you investigate and discover that the roller on the toner cartridge is scratched. What do you do? You let some idiot (not naming names) “fix” it. Which, of course, makes it worse. And now? Now you’re reduced to printing things on your color inkjet which, while speedy, is not really made for printing Plain. Black. Text.
Sigh.
Yes, you guessed it. My old dino of a printer has finally been put to rest. It ran for 15 years without many hitches. It was slow as molasses, but it was reliable. It worked! Fortunately, my husband had already promised that when Dino went we’d get another one, so it’s on its way, but it made me think.
Do you have anything that’s old and worn and a comfortable part of your routine that you do or will miss when it’s gone? Did you (like I did) learn to type on a manual typewriter and sometimes still miss having to slide the shuttle back and forth? Do you have a thesaurus or dictionary that’s falling apart? Does anybody else make attachments to inanimate equipment, or is that just me?
October 26th, 2006 at 12:05 am
Men. I keep them around long after they’ve broken down and refuse to function properly.
I know, I know, you said *in*animate. Trust me, the last one definitely was!!!
October 26th, 2006 at 12:06 am
Hmm I don’t know. I tend to be an upgrade girl. Although I am sort of that way with shoes. There’s shoes I refuse to get rid of, even though they’re crap now. LOL.
October 26th, 2006 at 4:14 am
LOL…Too funny. The only thing I can think of is the blanket I put around my legs when I get cold sitting at the computer. I’ve always found comfort in it. As for the techy stuf….I’m all for new and improved.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
OMG, thanks for the reminder, lyric!
I have one of those wool blankets you get south of the border - had it for 15 years. It’s the cat’s blanket now. God help the person who feels cold!
October 27th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
I get attached, which is why my basement is full of sh–tuff…
Completely useless thing I can’t part with: a pair of baby PJs–each of my sons wore them the day they came home from the hospital. I just can’t let ‘em go.
Of course, there’s all my blue mountain pottery, christmas ornaments from my childhood–really, basement full o shtuff, nuff said.