[Carriage Hill]

[BlueLancer]

When my stepson was getting ready to deploy with his unit, my wife and I bought him a new laptop computer so that he could use it to livechat and keep in contact with his wife.

Before giving it to him at his farewell party, we took it out of the box and replaced it with an Etch-a-Sketch, resealed the box, and wrapped it up all nicely.

When he unwrapped it, he was thrilled to see the box and opened it quickly. The look on his face was priceless when, after opening the several boxes inside, he pulled out the Etch-a-Sketch. Straight-faced, I outlined to him the simplicity of design of his new "computer", ending with showing him how to reboot it by turning it upside down and shaking it.

Then we gave him the real computer ...

[polymuser]

Cursive was much easier!