The Reboot
It lied to me. My computer. Don’t get me wrong; I know all about trying to save face. I also know my laptop pretty well by now. It was running slow, taking lots of time to think over fairly simple requests. A lull in my frantic mental activity led to the opportunity for me to initiate a reboot. When it winked open its electronic eye my screen told me it had restarted to install an update. Untrue. I had told it to restart. I gave the shutdown order to help with the obvious sluggishness that suggested to this Luddite brain ...