The next decade....what's in store?

He's so smart!

For my Christmas gift from Patch, I got a portable one-CD player so that when I go to the gym, if the music on the radio station sucks, I can play my own music so I can dweet long.

It came with a remote control. I pushed the gadget into every hole I could see that it would fit (only one!). No success in how to operate the remote and still be able to hear the music (because there was no other hole for the earphones).

Along comes the nephew. "What's this?" I explain it to him and that I can't figure out how to get it to work. "Can I try? Can I try?". Sure.

In a few minutes.....bingo! Solved.

I had already jumped to second stage thinking, and had determined that the remote HAD to be plugged into the CD player. Sure, that was the case, but then the earphones had to be plugged into the top of the remote. Silly me didn't examine the remote to see that it had another hole.

Moral of the story?

Although he hates school, and wouldn't consider himself terribly bright, he's absolutely smart when it comes into gadgets, games, technical things like that. So all kids might not be academically brilliant but they are sure brilliant in other ways.

Also consider all possibilities before you decide that something is what it is.

Hmmm, does that mean that I must consider the possibilities of marriage before deciding that I'm not getting married? Nah....

Posted by yamfoot at January 10, 2005 08:28 PM