We have all been here before, so go ahead and chuckle. Found on a random blog out there…

So yesterday morning, I get this e-mail from Jillian:
“so my computer’s been super slow these past few days and i dont know how to fix it. should i delete my temporary internet files, because i couldnt find those. i deletem my cookies…i think tht was good but god knows. how do i “defrag” my computer? shouldnt that help? what is it?”
I laughed for a good 15 mintues before gaining the composure to call her. I tell her this is the best e-mail in existance and she asks me what removes rust. Um… rust? I ask from what, and she says an easel. Helpful, G. Then she says she’s not sure if it’s actually rust. I try again, and ask what sort of material this easel is made from.
“Um… I don’t know. White? Here, you tell me. This is what it sounds like when I hit it with a pencil.”
*hits easel with pencil over phone*
“And, um… this is what it sounds like when I hit it with a… wooden thing.”
*hits easel with… I don’t actually know what, something wooden*
(I point out at this point, between gasps of laughter, that pencils are also wooden)
“Well, this is what it sounds like when I hit it with a bottle of Fantistic.”
*whacks easel with spray bottle*

… Eventually I got her to go to her room and hit Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools, where I tell her Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter are her two new best friends, in that order. I don’t actually know if she got her computer working smoothly again… it was defragmenting at about 7% an hour. She then went to go mix chemicals in the photo lab, and swears to me that she did not, in fact, get concentrated stop bath on her face.

I don’t know if anyone else finds this encounter funny, but I am still smiling about it (was actually giggling in the library while typing it up, garnering odd looks from those around me), and so I thought I’d share. Or at least record it for my own later amusement.

God I love my sister.