The Touch

Fio has been waxing nostalgic lately so she thought she would tell you about the (one and only) time she was hailed as an electronic genius.

It was years ago when computers were first being used to tally school board election results. Several of us were gathered around a screen that had the first returns on it. Everyone knew more vote results had come in, but no one knew how to make the screen advance safely--we were all afraid that one wrong move would cause us to lose the data.

Fio was just as ignorant as everyone else, but Husband wasn't, and she remembered from watching him that "enter" was always a safe bet. So, like Moses parting the waters, she reached her arm across the gathered throng, down to the keyboard, and pushed "enter."

The screen advanced and everyone turned and looked at Fio with worshipful wonder.

I guess some of us just have the touch.