My Weekend: Car vs. Computer
You walk into the office on a Monday morning, your spirit is restless, wishing to be elsewhere, your brain is telling you that you’ve got a lot of crap to finish-up, and on top of all that your body’s still asleep. You just barely made it into the office. From the corner of one eye you notice a colleague walking by and she greets you. You smile at her and she says, “How’s your weekend?”
Compare the following two answers:
“Man. I wasted my weekend. My car broke down so I spent just about the entire day on Saturday working on it, fixing it up. You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through. I was stuck under my car the whole time while the sun was out and I knew you guys were all out playing tennis. Then I got up Sunday and had to make sure the car’s okay so I finished that up and did some errands. You?”
“Man. I wasted my weekend. My computer crashed big time so I spent just about the entire day on Saturday working on it, fixing it up. You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through. I was stuck in my room the whole time while the sun was out and I knew you guys were all out playing tennis. Then I got up Sunday and had to make sure the computer’s okay so I finished that up and did some errands. You?”
For some reason, spending a weekend fixing your broken car makes you look like a hands-on, DIY type of guy. Spending your weekend fixing your computer, however, makes you look like you’ve got no life.
And yet, they are both essential for day to day living, especially if, like me, you make a living working with computers.
Hope your weekend didn’t make you look like a big nerd.
