Lessons from my Laptop

This morning my laptop told me it could not find it's hard drive.

???

What am I supposed to say?  "Well, where do you remember it being the last time you saw it?" or "Haven't I told you that if you would just put it back in the SAME place every time you use it, you wouldn't have this problem?"

Besides the whole annoyance factor here, it was kind of, well, arrogant, the way it just gave me the facts - you know, cold & unfeeling, no apology, no explanation, no nothing:  just "I can't find the hard drive." - like some sort of gleefully whiny child, "Na, na, na - What are you going to do about it?"

The short answer to that is "Juan the computer repairman."

But, on the bright side, there is a lesson to be learned.  In the future, when I lose my keys (again) & my husband & children are forced to help me find them, complaining & muttering uncomplimentary things while tossing couch cushions, I know how I will behave.  I will just state the facts, "I can't find my keys.";  cold & unfeeling, no apology, no explanation, no nothing.

& if my husband & children continue to complain, I will not get upset.  I will take a cue from my laptop.  I will repeat the facts again dispassionately.  Then I will offer them the same choices my laptop offered me...

F1 to retry
F2 to reboot
or
F5 to run diagnostics.

I am sure those choices will offer my family the same sort of satisfaction that I felt, when my laptop offered them to me.