a collection of computers

Gateway girl

(related story here)

From The Everywhere Girl Diaries – a work of fiction
First week of June, year one

Dear Diary,

You will never, ever guess what happened.  I won a computer!  Yes me; me who has never won anything in her entire life! I am officially on my way to having a collection of computers! This one is a Gateway and, although I don’t have it yet, it looks pretty cool.

How did this happen, you ask.  What random string of events had to take place in order for a girl who previously had no computer of her own to suddenly end up with two of them?

Well, this one…

• My parents had to give me my first computer…Check.
• Gateway, at one time, had to ship their computers in cow spotted boxes...Check.
• As a result, our local dairy farmers had to decide to hold a drawing at the mall for a free Gateway computer...Check.
• Stewart Larkin had to be invited to exhibit his extensive potato chip collection at the same mall...Check.
• Peter had to convince me that viewing this collection would not be a complete waste of my time...Check.
• I had to convince Peter that we should at least get smoothies before I was forced to view a potato chip shaped like France...Check.
• The girl who made Peter’s Berry Banana Burst had to be paying more attention to her recently released boyfriend than she was to putting the lid on Peter’s drink...Check.
• The bathroom where Peter went to try and wash Berry Banana Burst off his shirt had to be next to the table where the dairy farmers were touting the many benefits of consuming milk products...Check.
• Peter had to take so long in the bathroom (learning that one should, at all costs, avoid berry based stains) that I struck up a conversation with the dairy representative manning the booth who, as part of his booth manning duties, handed me an entry  form for the computer as well as a cow themed pencil with which to fill it out...Check.
• My name had to be the one that was drawn...Check.

It was that simple.  It was meant to be.

Now I just have to decide what to do. Should I keep them both? Should I sell one on Craigslist? Should I donate one? I’d really like to come up with something creative to do, but I’m definitively going to have to sleep on it.