A turtle family went on a picnic.. The turtles, being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outings.Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place. During the second year of their journey they found it. For about six months theycleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements.

Then they discovered the had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home.

Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left.

Three years passed– and the little turtle had not returned. Five years…six years.. then in the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and began to unwrap a sandwich.

I forget exactly where I was at the time, but as is the case, wherever it was someone was talking about computers, using computers and the problems and frustrations involved.

At one time there was even a debate as to the gender of a computer - stay with me now,  it gets better.  We finally came to the conclusion that nothing, can be so frustrating to a man, unwilling to do what he asks, or what it's told, or throws a tantrum if the wrong buttons are pushed, as well as a computer does,  so it therefore has to be Female.

On the same line we men, can't live with them, can't live without them, rely on them for so much. No matter how hard we try to understand them, and think we have them figured out and speak their language, and  POP, ...  up comes a whole new operating system with new bells and whistles.  Then you throw in the idiosyncrasies of upgrades, that are supposed to prevent certain calamities from happening, but sometimes still get overwritten by changes in programming syntax.

Yes, it can become quiet frustrating, quickly.

We all have received them but this one ......

An Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.

Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.