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I’m on Justin Long’s Side Now

There’s a feeling of both excitement and stress when you know that purchasing a new computer is imminent. A brand new shiny computer without the annoying pop ups, viruses, crashes and blue screens…endless, new possibilities with a faster, better and much cooler processor.  The Bionic Computer!

For years, we’ve been a PC.  I shared files with my bank clients who worked on PCs and my husband’s office is PC based.  In the past, when we’ve ordered a new PC the excitement of playing with the new computer quickly diminished once the thing arrived and it was time for set up.

The kids and I know what to do when a new gadget or electronic enters the house.  The minute my husband gets home we take our usual places-which means anywhere away from the new object.

It all starts out innocently enough.  The box opens, the Styrofoam peanuts hit the ground and we inhale the new smell of whatever it is that was delivered.  In cases of PCs from the past, we’d all smell the manual.

Like stage trained actors, we take our places once the manual is fully opened and the power chords are ripped from their small plastic bags.

The general mood at first is more of pensiveness.  My husband seems to study the set up and diagrams and initially everything seems to connect as indicated on the diagram.  However, simple quick studying quickly goes south as I begin to hear a few questionable words uttered quietly in the other room.

The kids and I know we are not to enter the room no matter what.  If you have to pee and the object is located in the path of the nearest facility you WILL hold it or fear the wrath.

My husband is generally an easy going guy.  He likes to garden, watch sports and will laugh along with the Adam Sandler movie flavor of the day with me. However, put him in front of an electronic and he becomes something else.

In the past we’ve been treated to a cacophony of keyboards smashing, tools being hurled across the room and unintelligible language shouted.  I think he’s even made up a bunch of words because the curse words were no longer cutting it for him.

So this time, when our newest computer arrived, we all began the typical mental preparation we usually do.  He took the new family computer into the den area we affectionately call the rumpus room and the kids and I stationed ourselves in our respective bedrooms.

We waited…nothing.  Certainly he must be baffled by the manual.  Then we heard the usual noises of a working computer.  This, I had to see for myself.

This was the first year we purchase a Mac.  The PC blue screen and crashing finally did my husband in and we went for it.  We Mac newbies didn’t know that it is literally plug and play.  This is a MIRACLE!!!

I have always loved those Mac and PC commercials.  I don’t know if it’s just because I love Justin Long, aka “the Mac,” but those ads always cracked me up.  Now…I really get them.  And my husband’s blood pressure stayed at a normal level for the first time after receiving an electronic.

My name is Gina and I’m a Mac!  (O.k. but I still have to work on a PC because my work computer is still functioning).