Thursday, March 18, 2010

Naked Vegetarians.

Last night, I accidentally left my computer in the classroom where our HNGR group had had a meeting. My friend Jason, who had brought it there for me, was in the library and so he ran over to find a public safety officer to let him in to the building to find it.

In order to appropriately do this, though, the officer had to speak with me on the phone to confirm that the computer he was finding was, in fact, mine.

"Hi Emily. This is Officer Stevens." He sounded very official and no-nonsense. "I just need you to describe your computer for me, please."

Oh, great.

"Um. Well. It's in um... a black bag..."

"Mmhmm..."

"And... it's a white MacBook..."

"Mmhmm..."

Sigh... there's really no way around this.

"And... it has a big green sticker on the front that says, 'God's original plan was to hang out in a garden with some naked vegetarians'."

Pause.

"HAHAHAHAHAA!!!!"

Yeah... don't put stickers on your computer that you're not going to mind someday verbally describing to a middle-aged male security guard.


2 comments:

Hans and Lindsay Nyberg said...

Hahahaha! That's hilarious! I miss you tons! -Lindsay

amy@flexibledreams said...

HAHAHAHAHA!! I love it!

The sticker is funny too.

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