I also was green before green was cool..I never owned a car, used a bicycle to get around(in LA!! unheard of !!) people laughed at me..I was always being ridiculed.. We wanted to read real books, look things up in a dictionary..we still had a set of encyceopedias (thank you Jimminy Cricket!)..
The big turning point was when we received a notice from the state of California that our tax form would no longer come in paper form..we had to fill in out"online"!!! Horror set in...I told English Husband, you know pretty soon everything will be online..we won't know how to do anything, maybe its time..
It was the end of the year..We could use the deduction..We went to the computer shop..We told the kid we needed a computer..He talked real fast..we didn't know what he was saying..When we told him we
never had a computer he stopped talking..He was speechless..dumbfounded..mute..I don't think he ever ran
across people like us..We were from another planet. How could it be that we never had a computer? It was as if we had never seen a car or used a telephone..Freaks!! After he got ahold of himself, he started to show us various models. They all seemed nice enough. How do you buy something when you don't know what it is that you are looking for? How many rams do you want? What's a ram?? I'm telling you we didn't know squat.. Husband said" My gallery owner uses an Apple computer..what about one of those"..His eyes lit up..glazed over..come this way he said..We entered into a seperate portal in the store..There they were...sleek, sexy, simple yet complex..downright beautiful looking...I knew it was the one..Garage Band...photobooth...itunes..magic mouse..no wires...gorgeous.." we want one of those" we cried...And so it happened..we bought it home..
