What's Your Word?

Unconventional

I will first preface the story by stating that I am a computer nut… just not in the way that you might think. When you think that someone is calling themselves a computer nut, you may tend to assume that they would be interested in the current computer technology. In this case, the one doing the assuming is wrong. I like older computers. Now I need to clarify this statement. Realistically what I believe an old computer is compared to the next person is quite different. It is quite possible that when you hear the words “old computer” you might think of a computer that is about three years old. Try twenty. That's right, I have a computer that's around twenty years old. (Depending on what you wanted to go by, be it Windows 95 or when he was built - 1997, you may actually get an age older than that.) The fun thing is that I'm not the only one who uses Ted (that's his name, and yes I do name all my computers. I don't mind if people reading this think it might be a tad weird.) Anyway back to the story. I am not the only person who uses Ted. Here in our little city of Pawzopolis I am the both the founder and the Mayor and Ted is a publicly used computer despite the fact that he doesn't go on the internet and would have a $210,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 price tag on him if he were lost or damaged. Just last week I loaned him to this nice couple named Percival Perkins and his wife Priscilla, two of the town's finest citizens. They are a couple who have been together for ten years but have decided not to have children, which is fine. Here in Pawzopolis we only have one official rule: Any person gets to make up his or her mind about how they want to spend their life without being judged. I don't feel I need to go into detail yet on what would happen if this law was violated, we'll save that for another time. For now, thank you for stopping by in Pawzopolis.