A Sign of the Times

I know this isn’t game related, but it IS kinda geek related. As a gamer, I consider myself a geek, so it’s fair game. Not to mention, I think it’s pretty damned funny. I think it represents how our society is evolving into one that is connected to technology like an umbilical cord. The following is from my personal blog and it’s titled, “Mom, wake up.”:

As a mom, I’ve had my share of waking up in the middle of the night because of a bad dream, wetting the bed, or feeling sick. It’s all a part of the job. Admittedly, my son is 14 now and this doesn’t really happen anymore. But early this morning, at about 4:30AM, I woke up to my son poking my arm over and over. I thought I had overslept for work or something.

He said, “Mom, wake up.”

I said, “What’s the matter?”

He said, “Mom, I think my computer has a virus.”

Pause.

I said, “What? What time is it?” I look at the clock. “Dude, it’s 4:30 in the morning? What are you still doing up?”

He said, “Sorry. My bad.”

I said, “What do you expect me to do about it at 4:30 in the morning? I can’t do anything about it right now. Go to sleep. Did you run a virus scan?”

He said, “I don’t know where the virus thing is.”

I stumbled out of bed, went to his computer, made sure the anti-virus was up-to-date and ran a scan. He apologized a bunch more times and asked if this scan was an overnight thing. I told him that it would take hours and that he needed to go to sleep. There was a part of me that was so pissed for being woken up at 4:30 in the morning for something like this, but at the same time, there was a part of me that just wanted to bust out laughing. Seriously, how many moms get woken up in the middle of the night because of a virus on a computer?

Teenagers. Gotta love ‘em.