Monday, April 11, 2011

Could that really be a blessing?!

So as you all know I had a traumatic experience with a disgusting spider landing on my shoulder. Well I can honestly say that it was indeed a blessing. Let me go ahead and tell you why. On Friday night B and I were watching a show about a guy in Australia that got bit by a poisonous spider and almost died. B looked at me and said,"I wonder if that spider that landed on you was poisonous. We should look it up and see. I have a laptop, so we can look while we sit right on the couch." Since I am lazy, staying on the couch was my main objective for the evening, so I agreed to his plan. Well, when we were looking at spiders on Google images a thing popped up saying that his computer had a lot of viruses on it. When I say a lot, I'm talking like 30+. Anyway it said that he should buy this thing called MS removal tool and that would in fact get rid of all those viruses and it would only cost him $54 a year. He is so smart and told me that I should go use our desk top and look up MS removal tool and see what it is. Well good thing I moved my lazy self and looked it up. MS removal tool is in fact a scam. It takes your credit card number and makes it available to the bad guys out in the world. It was telling the truth when it said that B's computer had a lot of viruses, but buying MS removal tool wouldn't fix the problem. So he did a live chat with the Sony people. The guy, who was very helpful and very friendly, told him a couple things to try. It didn't work. Instead his computer crashed. Yes the computer he bought in October, new from Sony itself, crashed. But thankfully the nice fellow at Sony was able to talk B through fixing it and getting it back to the way it came to him from the factory. The viruses are gone along with everything else he had saved on that computer. Including a paper he had written for school but hadn't turned in yet. But the good news is that he was able to fix it himself with the help of the nice boy at Sony. Another great thing was that it happened Friday night. He doesn't really use his laptop except for at school. So if that vial disgusting spider hadn't landed on me, then we wouldn't have been looking up spider pictures. He wouldn't have used his computer until Monday morning at school. He had to have his computer in class because he was taking a test. If we hadn't used it Friday, then it would have crashed while he was taking his test and that would not have been great! So in conclusion, thank you disgust, vial, sick spider for picking my shoulder to land on so that his computer crashed when it did and not later.

5 comments:

  1. It constantly amazes me how things work out. Just when you think something is truly terrible the real truth comes out. It's so cool!

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  2. Soooo...was the spider poisonous??? I'm glad it worked out but you left out that minor detail!

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  3. Wow!! Thats crazy. I am so glad that things worked out ok. That stinks B lost his school paper. Good thing he is super smart :)

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  4. Oh sorry! The computer crashed before we could find out. I'll look into that and let you know!

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  5. I don't think so. I think it was a species of a wolf spider. Since there are over 200 species I couldn't find the exact match. The site said that a wolf spider will bite and it would hurt pretty bad. Then it said, and every body responds to the bite differently. So I could have been killed! Thankfully I lived to tell the story. They should do a reality show on me.

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