XOXO, your friend, Joe
I may post a real post later but this made me laugh and laugh. From today’s NY Times on the muted debut of Windows Vista:
“If there were a line, I would have been on there,†said Joe Torres Jr., 54, a security guard who bought a Vista operating system for himself yesterday morning at a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, along with a Hewlett-Packard laptop fitted with Vista as a Valentine’s Day gift for a friend.
Can you imagine the scene at that guy’s place? “You called me your friend in the New York Times?”
Because, folks, I don’t know anyone who buys their friends laptops as gifts, especially for Valentine’s Day. Good call, Joe, good call.
“Here you go, Earl. It’s an HP laptop, with that new Microsoft Vista operating system. Happy Valentine’s Day.
“And wait’ll you see what I bought my wife for her Valentine’s present–an island in the tropics! Think she’ll like it?”
Those security guards really rake in the dough, you know.
There’s a lot to guard down there.
Hm, that came out kinkier than I meant.
But intriguing.