I’m not gonna say they finish first or last but they definitely finish.

Sunday night I did something to my laptop and all purgatory broke loose. Suddenly nothing worked, including what was left of my critical thinking.  Making up passwords.  Going into the System Folder where I had absolutely NO business being, and there were several other pitstops in some dicey cyber neighborhoods.

When a good part of what you do and what you need to do is suddenly leaking out of this silver thing accompanied by warnings popping up left and right starting at critical and escalating up to end of the world levels.  I think one notification said there was a virus nearby that was malicious.  That’s like Dr. Fauci stuff.

As hard as it was to stop fiddling around thinking the solution was gonna unveil itself, I took a sedative and went to sleep.

The next morning I was up and out of the house in a flash.  My dogs were shell shocked by my speed.  Destination:  The Apple Store Genius Bar in the Short Hills Mall.  Sounds fancy right?  You have no idea. The valet parking attendants wear Yves Saint Laurent.  Well maybe a knock off.  But they get right in your deal and demand to park your car.  It’s a long way from Stop n Shop.

I get to the Apple Store and there he is.  In my memory there’s a halo of light circling his head, and god knows he had hair to spare.  Like real stuff.  Nice.  Kind.  Personable.  How does that happen?

He started with a reassuring word that everything has a solution.  (Wish he was around my parents during my formative years.)  It all took a while and I kind of followed what he was doing but not really.  I kept staring at his hair and conjuring decent starting bids.

When he was done, he said I should really categorize my writing stuff.  He noticed it was all over the place.  This guy was amazing.  I kept wanting to say that the other people probably had bigger fish to fry than my messiness but he focused on my laptop and yes this nice guy finished.  I have all these labeled files organized by date or name and I get to decide.  Why is it shocking when someone’s approachable, even keel and sports a sincere demeanor that completely throws us off?  It’s like we’re waiting for the part when he pulls out the gun and satisfies our standard expectation.

If you’re out there Apple Genius, you izz one cool cat.  Now about that hair …