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Apples for thought

You would think that people who work in cyber-cafes will be smarter than the people who frequent them. Well, think again.

The other day a friend-of-mine walked into one such cafes armed with a diskette of the Macintosh variety. If you worship the Mac, you might know that while a Mac based diskette will not open on a Windows platform, it works fine the other way round. Since he wished to access data from the diskette, this friend-of-mine walked up to the smart looking attendant there and inquired if they had an ‘Apple’.

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The attendant rolled her eyes, gave a flash of her smile, then a small sigh. She said, “No. We don’t serve apple juice here, but if you walk down the lane and get into the Refreshment Corner on your right, you will be able choose from a variety of fresh juices available there.”

Fuming beneath his collar, my friend decided to act cool. He said, “Excuse me ma’am, but I’m speaking about an Apple Macintosh.”

“OK” She said, obliging to show one more side of her helpful nature. “So you’re looking for Macintosh chocolates? You can walk into the supermarket down the road and pick your choice of Macintosh chocolates there!”

“Grrrrrrrr” my friend roared, as he told me “Next time she touches the ‘mouse’, I hope it bites her.”

Things like these happen all the time. Like, did you hear of the nincompoop secretary who ‘slides over’ each time the boss asks for his laptop? Makes me wonder, whether he keeps his laptop for business or does he keep it as an excuse?

Now the next time you enter your friendly cyber-cafe to browse the latest on Mac-world, do not ask the cute attendant there, if she can help you ‘explore’.

She might!

-Felixfoo


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