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Chapter 2
In the morning, when he woke up, he had discovered that his Internet had disconnected in the middle of the night. And it had already downloaded about 90 MB of Star Office. Jack was so angry he began to scream, run around the room, and swear using every single cuss word in the English language. When he had finally calmed down, he reconnected, and used GetRight to download Star Office all over again.
When at school, Joe, Jack’s other friend, came up to him and said, “Why has your phone been busy all morning? I tried to call you!”
“Well, I had to get on the Internet” said Jack
“Ha! I am always on the Internet.” Both Joe and Lenny had broadband.
“Well, some of us don’t have that luxury.”
“So what have you been on the Internet doing? Downloading porn?”
“No… I needed to get Star Office.”
“What’s that?”
“It’s like MS Office, but better! It runs on Linux.”
“You can’t do anything on Linux.”
“Yes you can! You can do everything! You are just brainless!”
“No, you are just obtuse. Anyway, did you know about that test we were gonna have today?”
“OH NO!! I forgot! I was too busy with Linux!!” After realizing how obsessed he sounded with Linux, he said, “But, I can study for it in 5 seconds!”
“Uh huh….”
Jack got out his book and started cramming for the test. He tried to figure out how he forgot about the test.
When he got home, he discovered that his Internet had disconnected once again, but to his horror, he also discovered that the server he was downloading from did not support resuming. Once again he began screaming, running around the room, and swearing.
Ring ring… ring ring… “Hello?” answered Lenny.
“Hey, this is Jack. Could you do me a favor?”
“What.”
“Could you download Star Office for me?”
“Why?”
“Because every time I try to download it, I get disconnected.”
“Well, you just need broadband don’t you?”
“Just please? I really need it!”
“Man, if you don’t get it, I’m just gonna lose sleep over that.”
“PLEASE!!!”
“Well, ok.”
“Thank you! Just burn it on a CD and give it to me.”
“Ok, fine.”
“Bye.”
“Bye.”
Click
The next day, Lenny brought Star Office for Jack. “There ya go!” said Lenny. “Ah… Good!”
“What do you say?”
“Huh?”
“What do you say?!?”
“Oh. Thank you!”
“Yeah. I’ll have you know that took me about twenty minutes to download that! You took away some of my sweet time to get that for you. So you better say thank you. You just need to learn some manners.”
“Yeah, well, ok, thanks.”
When he got home he installed Star Office. He began fiddling around with it. Then when he was done playing around with it, he started downloading smaller things for Linux. Then he went to bed.
Note: Similarity of any of the characters in this story, dead or alive, is probably not coincidental.