PC Guy > Mac Mother
While on vacation, there were many holiday moments that were highlighted by their streaks of geekdom. Such as my mother going into tears after seeing LOLCATs for the first time or me hooking up a router so my brother could play Xbox live (and now has a way higher Halo 3 rank in the two weeks I was there verses the months I’ve had the game).
But none compares to the Mac incident.
My mother loves to point out how she uses a Mac and not a PC when I’m around. Even though I work in Microsoft Office, I get asked why I didn’t add some feature to Windows Vista that Leopard has (not to mention the temporal difference in release dates).
None the less, it’s quote “easier to use”. So along comes the time when we need to burn a CD. After trying to get the free software that comes with my dad’s PC to work and failing, we decided to try the Mac.
The CD slides into the side of the screen and up pops a message about a blank CD and if we’d like to burn to it. A few clicks later and the CD is burning. “Well I’ll be!” I thought, “that was darn easy”. We leave the room for a while and come back to check if it’s done. “Operation Complete” it exclaims! I couldn’t see their expressions, but I’m sure there was a smug look of “Try that on for size, PC guy.”
Then comes 45 minutes of my parents trying to get the CD to eject from the drive being there’s no eject button on the side of the machine. Look in Finder, no CD drive, can’t find the icon on the desktop. Finally they manage to bring the burning software back up, but the Eject button is disabled. Some internet searches later points to the eject button on the keyboard. A quick press of this button that's been there the whole time and....nothing.
Reboot holding the eject button on the keyboard, reboot holding the mouse down, reboot doing both, do a dance to appease the Mac gods and then hit the eject button. Nothing comes out of the CD drive.
They leave the room, dejected and heartbroken that their so easy to use Mac has let them down.
I peek over and see a freshly burned CD-R laying on the desk next to the side of the Mac right below the vertical slit that is the CD drive. I walk out of the room and present the CD to shocked faces.
“How did you get it out?”
“Magic”
