"I should've just kept my mouth shut," a regretful
Josh said, "but she says that all the time. It was
driving me nuts. I thought this time is going to
be
different. This time she is going to
understand."
Alas, poor Josh was wrong.
What follows is the beggining of that "Lost Hour" as it has become known to Josh.
"Mom, it's not memory
on a hard drive it's space, and loading a program
on your hard drive
doesn't have anything to do with your memory," said
Josh.
"But I only have 64
Em-Bee of R-A-M," said Cynthia," and this program
says it requires 85
Em-Bee. It says it requires a modem too. Do we
have a modem?"
"Yes, we have a 56K
modem. And no, 64 MB RAM and 85 MB space
on your hard drive
is different Mom. Just because they both are
measured in megabytes
doesn't mean they're the same thing. Is a gallon
of milk the same thing
as a gallon of blood?"
"It doesn't say anything
here about 56K, is that all right. What's a
mega-byte and why
all this talk about blood. Have you been playing
those games again.
How many times have I told you...."
Josh's brother Trevor witnessed the scene and said,
"It was pretty sad, really. When I
heard him start to explain 56K, it was like watching
someone try to explain quantum
physics to a goat. At that point, though,
he had no choice it was like the Titanic after
the iceberg, just a matter of time until the people
started screaming."
The situation ended with Josh screaming "Shut up,
shut up, shut up" and then installing
the "damn" family tree maker, while his mother cried
in the family room.