As a mom, I've had my share of waking up in the middle of the night because of a bad dream, wetting the bed, or feeling sick. It's all a part of the job. Admittedly, my son is 14 now and this doesn't really happen anymore. But early this morning, at about 4:30AM, I woke up to my son poking my arm over and over. I thought I had overslept for work or something.
He said, "Mom, wake up."
I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Mom, I think my computer has a virus."
Pause.
I said, "What? What time is it?" I look at the clock. "Dude, it's 4:30 in the morning? What are you still doing up?"
He said, "Sorry. My bad."
I said, "What do you expect me to do about it at 4:30 in the morning? I can't do anything about it right now. Go to sleep. Did you run a virus scan?"
He said, "I don't know where the virus thing is."
I stumbled out of bed, went to his computer, made sure the anti-virus was up-to-date and ran a scan. He apologized a bunch more times and asked if this scan was an overnight thing. I told him that it would take hours and that he needed to go to sleep. There was a part of me that was so pissed for being woken up at 4:30 in the morning for something like this, but at the same time, there was a part of me that just wanted to bust out laughing. :) Seriously, how many moms get woken up in the middle of the night because of a virus on a computer?
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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3 comments:
Glad to see you at least had a sense of humor about it. Man, if I tried that on my mom at that time of morning... I'd likely have had to endure the pure, frenzy-mad wrath of a grizzly bear unleashed.
I'd probably have better luck flying off of my roof with a towel for a cape.
In this day and age, I suspect perhaps almost as moms get woken up to deal with a computer virus as an actual one.
I'll have to ask the next time I'm at one of those parent meetings for school. I would be inclined to agree with you, but from most of the parents and children I come into contact with, the kids clearly have more experience and understanding of the computers than the parents. Perhaps it's a regional thing, but parents here often have NO CLUE what their kids are doing on the computer and when a parent's computer screws up, they immediate ask their teenage kid for help...lol.
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