Meet my Friend Tom!
Here I am voice chatting on the computer to my friend Tom. We made friends in a chat room over a year ago and have become very good friends. When we met I knew very little about computing and the internet, so meeting Tom was just great! He knows his computer inside out and he has been there to teach me and show me how to fix the many computer mishaps I've
encountered.
Tom: "Hi, what have you done now?"
Mags: "Done! what do you mean?"
Tom: "Ok, not what have you done wrong, what have I forgotten to tell you?"
Mags: "Are you trying to tell me something Tom, like I'm never wrong, always right?"
Tom: "no, no, wouldn't dream of it Mags"
Mags: "Why not, it's true" *smile*
Tom: "I've got it wrong again then"
Mags: "Anyway Tom, can't a friend invite you for a voice chat just to have a friendly conversation?"
Tom: "Sure, I guess so"
Mags: "That's straightened that out then, how's things today?"
Tom: "Things are good, except I was going to mow the lawn and cut the hedge but the rain isn't far away and it's cold outside"
Mags: "Funny that, you said the same thing yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that"
Tom: "Hmm, did I?"
Mags: "Yes, the grass will be so long soon, you'll loose your dogs in it!"
Tom: "MagsI could lose them even after the grass was cut, they're only little Yorkies after all"
Mags: "That's true, anyway thought you would be going up town shopping today, don't you usually go on a Monday?"
Tom: "Hmm, well, yes I usually do but I decided against it this week"
Mags: "Did you, why?"
Tom: "Well I had an embarrassing moment last week up town and I feel i should lay low for a bit"
Mags: "Lay low, what for, what happened?"
Tom: "Well, just between us you understand"
Mags: "of course, you can trust me"
Tom: "Well, I wanted to buy a new jacket with a deep inside pocket, you know to keep my wallet safe and so on"
Mags: "Yes"
Tom: "There was a rail in the store with all these different styles of jacket and I was working my way along the rail, checking them out and feeling inside them all to see if any of the jackets would do"
Mags: "I get the picture"
Tom: "Well, after checking out the inside pockets of quite a number of them, I put my hand inside this one and was feeling around and thinking to myself, gosh this jacket feels quite warm, when Flora comes hurrying up to me and said to me...Tom what the heck are you doing!"
Mags: "Tell me!"
Tom: "Well, I didn't realise I had come to the end of the rail and I had stuck my hand inside an old lady's coat and was having a good old feel around her, hmm, well for want of a better word, chest"
Mags: "*laughs* I don't believe it!"
Tom: "It's all true, it was most embarrassing"
Mags: "I bet it was, what did you do?"
Tom: "Oh, Flora explained to the old lady, that I was blind and she seemed to take it in good spirit"
Mags: "Well, there you are then, you don't have to stop going up town, the lady understood"
Tom: "You don't understand, I'm not staying home because I'm still embarrassed"
Mags: "You're not?"
Tom: "No, I'm not going up town, because I've heard the old lady has been there every day since, hoping I'll come back!"
Mags: "Tom! You are wonderful!" *laughs* " "
Tom: "That lady must have thought so as well," *grin*
Mags: "You know Tom, I was just thinking, Scottie is a very apt nickname for you, being Scottish and all"
Tom: "Oh but that's not why I chose Scottie"
Mags: "It isn't?"
Tom: "It's because I love Star Trek!"
Mags: "Ah that explains it then"
Tom: "Explains what?"
Mags: "Why you seem to be on another planet most of the time," *laughs* "and why people keet saying to you, up me beam Scottie!"
Tom: "Mags, it's beam me up Scottie"
Mags: Is it? Like it better my way" *smile*
Tom: "How's the new website going?"
Mags: "Really good, except..."
Tom: "Except what?"
Mags: "Well, nice of you to offer to help Tom, I put a new background sound in today and I can't get it to work, plus there are one or two other little matters I'd like you to look at for me"
Tom: "Hey, I thought you said, this was just going to be a friendly chat!"
Mags: "It was going to be honest, but you did offer"
Tom: "Did I?"
Mags: "Yes, don't you remember?"
Tom: "Can't say I do"
Mags: "Told you, your head always seems to be on another planet!"
Tom: *sigh* "Let's have a look at your website then"
Mags: "Good of me to bring you back down to earth, isn't it?"
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