The other day I was saying to Ian about the hazzards of Tom cats on draft pieces of work, they tend to come into the room, jump up onto my lap and then proceed onto the keyboard causing havoc on the way and occasionally deleting uncompleted posts. Heaven nwhat the remnants of the newly ploughed field are doing to the keyboard itself.
Then there's the teenagers who come in to see what's going on and start tapping keys and a different screen comes up... it's all greek to me.
However, with their usual resourcefulness school children have created a whole new set of technological excuses for not handing in their homework. Gone are the days of "I must have left it on the bus", we now have "I left my laptop on the bus."
The days of pens running out and there being no more ink have passed, but apparently printers also run out of toner on a regular basis, paper is another volatile commodity and of course there is the plain old printer that just wouldn't print out.
Siblings still come in for their fair share of blame, but "my brother thought it was scrap paper and made a paper aeroplane out of it that landed in the fire", has now become, "My brother came in and changed user and I hadn't saved it so it was lost!"
And it's nice to know that Fido is still largely responsible for the loss of homework, with him eating the printed work as it comes out of the printer, putting his paws on the keyboard so the work is deleted and even vomiting or widdling on the keyboard, tower or printer so the computer explodes and the work can't be done.
I have to admit I do like the more elaborate ones myself.
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