losing an s

the tall but skinny blonde was walking around her desk, moving chair around looking under desk, shuffling through papers on desk

‘mmm?’

‘have you seen my s?’

whaaat?

‘i’ve lost my s!’

‘wtf?!!?’

looking sheepish, she began explaining. she was eating popcorn. a crumb fell on her computer keyboard. she tried to remove it with fingers. no luck

trying to get it out with fingernail only wedged it further in between keys

she gets out paper clip & folds into weapon

this morsel is proving elusive

& in the ensuing commotion – plop – & – whoooosh! – a key pops out & flies into the air!

woe is her! the all-important s is missing!

she is not happy with siggimuses suggestion to work around it – to steer clear of words with s

nor is she happy with is alternate suggestion – find an s she has written earlier, copy it & paste it a million times to a safe place. that way she’d have a month’s worth of esses!!

she seemed less than enthusiastic

well, if she ignores all of siggimuses brilliant ideas, she can bite herself

she didn’t, but still not finding it, she goes to the basement to visit puter supply room

soon, she returns, triumphant ‘i think this will fit!’

‘erm … siggimus is pretty sure any keyboard will fit’

‘no! no! i mean the s!! i just got an s!!’

she tries to fit the s on the keyboard

frown. it doesn’t fit

sitting in her chair, she squeaks!

yes! there’s the s!

it was sitting in her chair the whole time!

this debacle reminded siggimus of his own keyboard incident

once, siggimus spent 3 hours with the left-arrow key stuck down

the freaky thing about having precisely that key stuck down is that each press of a button is automatically followed by a press of the left arrow

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