A Scare

Last Monday I was scared by my computer. When I got back from work I started it up, just like always, and had entered my password when *Shwip* a window opened. Then some nice Arial text informed me that my version of Windows Vista was not genuine. This of course, was absolutely wrong, as I had been using my computer for close to a year now, and it had always been genuine.

I started getting scared only after my other pin number wouldn't work. Now, perhaps you may be thinking, so what? What's the big deal, honestly? Let me elucinate.

For a computer guru, losing your computer is like losing your right hand. The guru enters into a state of symbiosis with his computer only hours after his initial purchase. From then on the computer gives the guru power inconceivable, and in return the guru gives the computer a personality and provides for all it's needs. It's a wonderful thing, and it's only a short amount of time before the computer feels like a well fitting glove.

So to be told that my windows wasn't genuine, it seemed to fortold the death of a very close personality. Of course, I reasoned, Windows will have to give me a new code or something like that, cause I did use their product for a year, and I have bought it after all. Right?

So I called HP customer service and spoke to this gal for about a half hour, fiddling with things and overall failing. Then finally, I realized I had gotten one of the digits in my pin number wrong.
Windows worked then. It made my day, cause now my computer was back to normal!

But I never did tell the gal on the phone that I had just gotten the stupid number wrong.