Green is Good. Black is Bad. See all the Black?

My parent’s computer had a breakdown…and by breakdown I mean, it basically shut down and said, “I’m done.  You’re on your own.”  So, they enlisted the help of the Wiggans family IT guy—Hubs.  Hubs brought their computer home and generated a plan to retrieve the important stuff that was lost.

Last night Hubs grabbed their computer and said, “Tonight is the night.  We’ll know if we can get your moms stuff tonight!”

Me:  YAY! 

Hubs does tons (hours and hours go by---or minutes but it seemed like hours) of geeky stuff.  And by ‘geeky stuff,’ I mean ‘stuff I don’t understand.’ 

I look over and recognize several of my mom’s files!

Me:  YAY!  You got it to work!

Hubs:  Now, take it easy.  I don’t know how much is intact…

Me:  Seriously?  I can see it.  It’s all right there.  I can see the pictures! What do you mean, what’s in tact?  I can see it all!

Hubs:  I just don’t know how damaged the files are yet….

Me:  Whatev.  I can see them.  I know what you are doing.  You’re just trying to scare me so you look like a hero.  I’m in sales…I know what’s up.

Hubs:  Seriously?  You better not be disappointed if I can’t read the files.

Me:  Seriously?  Just do it.

(He starts loading her files on my jump drive)

Me:  See it’s doing it.

Hubs:  See this box?  Green is good. Black is bad. See all the black?

Me:  This is your specialty.  You are just trying to scare me.  

Hubs:  It’s not good.  Look at the black.

Me:  Black Schmlack.     

Hubs: (exhausted with me)

The meter moved slowly: 25%.  31%.  52%. 75%.  81%.  99%.  99%.  99%.  99%.  100%.

Me:  It’s done!  Do it!  Do whatever you have to do.

Hubs: (Ignoring me)

Me:  Look it’s done!  See if it works.

Hubs:  Hang on

Me:  No!  Do it!  Do what you have to do.  See if it works. Do it!

Hubs:  Give me two minutes

Me:  Do it!  Do it!  Do it!

Hubs goes back to the computer and sees what is on the jump drive. 

Hubs:  Looks like it’s all there.

Me:  REALLY?  YAAAAAY! 

Hubs:   Wait, we have to see how damaged the files are; we need to disinfect…

Me:  Disinfect?  Against what?

Hubs:  I don’t know. 

Me:  Give it to me.  I want to see if it’s all there.

Hubs:  I think we should wait.

Me:  I have my own personal IT guy.  Give it to me.

I plug it into my laptop….and it works. I can see all the pictures.

Me:  See.  I told you.  You were trying to scare me.  I knew you could do it. 

Hubs:  (given up and obviously defeated by my superior technological foresight) Please run your virus scan. 

Me:  Ok

Hubs: Noooow?

Me:  Okaaaaaay.

This morning Hubs got to take the files over to my mom and I can only imagine how happy she was when she saw them!  Way to go Hubs!