"Thank you very much." I say, taking one of the free samples. I slide it into the com-unit, but nothing happens. I slide it out, and back in again. Still nothing. I bang the com unit against the desk several times. The screen remains blank.
"Gah!" I exclaim, throwing the device to the floor and kicking it across the room.
The card slides out when it collides with the wall, and I realize I had inserted the card backwards.
I storm across the room, cursing at the com-unit under my breath and pick it up, angry at the pain in my toe from kicking it.
"Some smartphone," I complain, in the hopes that no one else realized that it was my lack of intelligence that prevented it from working.
I jam the card in the right way, and force a smile before our happiness officer arrives.
The com-unit flickers on, and I almost hope that my assult broke it, so it would seem that it had actually been faulty from the start.
I stare at the screen irately as I wait for it to work.
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Lexicographer: Someone who writes dictionaries
Neophyte: A novice, or newbie
Hemisemidemiquaver: In music, a sixty-fourth note
Exit Troglobite, Stage Left
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