As Angela pushed the power button to her computer, the computer started to turn on but then suddenly started to turn off again. Angela groaned but pressed the power button again. Now, if Angela had waited for the computer to turn completely off before turning it back on again, it might not have happened. But that, combined with plugging the computer in during a thunderstorm made a disaster.
The screen lit up, and a message appeared on screen that told Angela, “The thunderstorm was successfully transferred to your hard drive. To proceed, press any key.” Next to it was a picture of a bolt of lightning. Angela screamed, but then came back to her senses. Wanting to know what would happen next, she pushed a key on her keyboard. She got a jolt from her computer and felt her hair rising. Suddenly she was filled with static electricity.
The computer then turned on as normal, but whenever Angela clicked on certain things, the computer would give her information and pictures of thunderstorms. That was okay for a while, but soon Angela got tired of it. She decided to look in the help and support center of the computer and see if there was anything on thunderstorms in the hard drive.
“Your computer will transfer a thunderstorm to your hard-drive if you plug it in during a thunderstorm and press the power button twice,” The help center said. “This can be helpful, as it will give you a lot of information and pictures of thunderstorms, but it also destroys many files on your hard-drive.”
Angela decided to give up on her computer for a while and come back later. Maybe a break would give her an idea. She wandered into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. She saw her hair, which was still standing on end from the static electricity, and it gave her a good idea on how to have a little fun.
She snuck up behind her twin brother (who was still laboring over his report), reached around his head, and touched his nose. Since she was filled with electricity it gave him quite a shock.
“Hey!” Eddie exclaimed and ran after his sister. However, he didn’t have any electricity in him, so when he touched Angela, he just got shocked again. Then Eddie remembered some slippers he had in his closet that would generate static electricity so he ran to his room and put them on. The war was on, and soon the two children were running around the house trying to get each other.
After a while that got tiring, and Angela wondered how she could ground herself and get rid of all of that static. All of a sudden the perfect idea hit her. She ran over to her computer and touched the top of it. She received the greatest shock of her life, but her hair relaxed. Then she looked at her screen and saw that the thunderstorm had left her computer. It had been the perfect solution.
Suddenly, “Beep, beep, beep, beep! Beep, beep, beep, beep! Beep, beep, beep, beep!” Angela rolled over in bed and rubbed her eyes. Had that all been a dream? She turned off her beeping alarm clock and looked outside her bedroom window. Dark clouds were gathering, and it was beginning to rain. Uh, oh, thought Angela with a smile as she remembered her dream, I’d better not plug in my computer today!
Comments
Feb. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by BookLover
I'd read that story before but I forgot it was a dream!!! We don't have to worry about anything like that happening because we don't get any (correction-- we hardly ever) get any thunderstorms!
Your a great writer. Did you tell Mrs. Marlow about this yet?
Amy