the tall but skinny blonde was walking around her desk, moving chair around looking under desk, shuffling through papers on desk<\/p>\n
‘mmm?’<\/p>\n
‘have you seen my s?’<\/p>\n
whaaat?<\/p>\n
‘i’ve lost my s!’<\/p>\n
‘wtf?!!?’<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
trying to get it out with fingernail only wedged it further in between keys<\/p>\n
she gets out paper clip & folds into weapon<\/p>\n
this morsel is proving elusive<\/p>\n
& in the ensuing commotion – plop – & – whoooosh! – a key pops out & flies into the air!<\/p>\n
woe is her! the all-important s is missing!<\/p>\n
she is not happy with siggimuses suggestion to work around it – to steer clear of words with s<\/p>\n
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!!<\/p>\n
she seemed less than enthusiastic<\/p>\n
well, if she ignores all of siggimuses brilliant ideas, she can bite herself<\/p>\n
she didn’t, but still not finding it, she goes to the basement to visit puter supply room<\/p>\n
soon, she returns, triumphant ‘i think this will fit!’<\/p>\n
‘erm … siggimus is pretty sure any keyboard will fit’<\/p>\n
‘no! no! i mean the s!! i just got an s!!’<\/p>\n
she tries to fit the s on the keyboard<\/p>\n
frown. it doesn’t fit<\/p>\n
sitting in her chair, she squeaks!<\/p>\n
yes! there’s the s!<\/p>\n
it was sitting in her chair the whole time!<\/p>\n
this debacle reminded siggimus of his own keyboard incident<\/p>\n
once, siggimus spent 3 hours with the left-arrow key stuck down<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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