Wednesday, December 16, 2009

True Story

Ok, so this just happened today. True story.

I'm sitting in my boss's office with her and we're working on stuff at her computer. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, her computer says (yes, it actually SAYS): "...daphne..." in this little, computer voice.

We both stopped, looked at each other, and then I'm like, "I'm skeered!" We couldn't figure out where it came from or why her computer would say that. Reasonable explanation is somehow it picked up my name from the document we were working on, and used voice-reading technology, but she says it's NEVER done that before.

I was laughing, but I was also so freaked out that I almost started crying. It's my worst nightmare! Inanimate objects coming to life! Saying my name! Aaaahhhh!

We kept working but I was keeping a close eye on her computer. I swear if it said one more word, I was going to go all Office Space on it.

7 comments:

Stefanie said...

Oh my, this was funny! I think I would freak out too if a computer out of the blue said my name.

Daphne said...

I did freak out! I was trying not to freak out, but I had to really work to not start crying. It was kind of scary!

Anonymous said...

that would totally give me the heebie jeebies. very weird.

Daphne said...

I'm sure it was just some technical something-or-other doing its thing, but it was WEIRD.

Lara Starr said...

FREAKY! If I were you I'd point a cross at it and repeat "The Power of Christ Compells You" at the top of your lungs.

Theresa said...

technical hiccup or not... that is still creepy!!!

Daphne said...

Yeah, I didn't like it very much. At all.