Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26412523-20150531194707

''Author's Note: This story is a bit bizarre, but that's why I'm not officially posting it. I fear that it would be taken down for that. Also, the title isn't official. If you have any other name suggestions please comment them. Thanks-''

It was an average morning for Don Keller. He woke up, had a smoke on the balcony, and went to his shitty job - in his shitty town, wearing the same old pair of jeans that haven’t been washed for two weeks. You might feel sorry for him, but you just wait. His problems are about to get a lot worse.

But enough that, let’s talk about the rest of his day.

When he left work, his boss gave him his paycheck. He opened the envelope, violently, and looked at the check. It was a total of 50 dollars. Don thought about all the things he should use the money for, which was a lot. But he did remember that he needed to get a computer. So he went to the nearest pawn  shop to see what they had. Now obviously, not a lot of computers will go for under 100 dollars, but what was about to happen might surprise you.

About 9 years ago, some idiot took his new macbook and gave it to a pawn shop because he thought it was broken. He told the the manager of the shop everything that was wrong with it, and said that he can have it for free. Some of the details the man gave of his experience with the computer, were written on a list. The manager probably wrote it as a reminder before selling it. They may not sound like huge problems to you, but like I said, this guy is an idiot.

Apple Macbook Pro 13 inch (mid 2006)

Overheating

 Freezing (Not the temperature, but it would freeze during use.)

 Glitchy keyboard

Don walked into the pawn shop with a tiny smile of excitement. “Hi, do you have any computers?” he asked.

“Well, we do have this old macbook from 2006. It’s about 28 dollars, but it’s apparently got a lot problems.”

“28 dollars?” Don asked.

“Yeah… when we first put it up for sale, it was about 120 dollars. But since then, it lost it’s value.”

“Still!” Don said. “You’d think that a macbook would be more than that.”

“Yes, but this particular macbook is absolutely terrible. Since we first got it, more and more problems started as a lot of people would buy it and return it.”

“Well, I’ll take it.” Don said.

“Really? Okay, here you go.” The man at the register was pretty surprised. Don didn’t seem to mind the issues of the computer at all. But Don hasn’t even booted the thing up yet, so just wait.

Don opened the door to his apartment to find everything pitch black. He put the bag with the computer inside on the floor, and tried to find the light switch. “God fuckin’- Been living here 7 years, still can’t find the fuckin’ light switch.” He said to himself.

He went over to his desk, and set the computer down. Opening it, he was greeted with the old apple startup sound. The apple logo came up, but it didn’t look right. The apple was a full apple. In the actual logo, there is bite mark on the side, not on this one. But Don didn’t notice, this is his first apple device, how would he know?

After it finished loading, it displayed the home screen. Don first went to set up the internet connection, but when he checked it was already set up. “What?” He said.

Don’s internet is password protected, there is no way this computer could automatically connect. He decided to ignore it for now, and go check his email. When he pulled up the browser, everything seemed normal. He simply clicked the gmail button on the home page and it took him straight to his inbox. Don didn’t have to login, because he already was. “Okay, the internet connection thing is weird, but how the fuck does it already know my email?” He said. He clicked on the finder icon, to see what was on the computer. When he clicked on the photo icon, he found pictures from his childhood. There was this one photo of him on the tea cup ride in disneyland with his parents. He had this huge grin plastered on his face. But right now Don has a very frightened look on his face, because this computer has photos that he doesn’t even have physically. He pulled up another window, and clicked the account button. When it opened, it said this -

Don Keller

Born in 1973, January 29th.

Don is now speechless. It new his name and birthday. “How is this possible?!” He yelled.

Don got out of his chair, and went over to his fridge to grab a can of beer. He sat down on his bed thinking about all of this. He thought about all the things the guy at the shop said, trying to recall anything that may have some explanation for the computer. All he could remember is that it would overheat, and freeze. Those don’t seem to fit this behavior.

Don sat back down at the desk to find the computer doing something even more bizarre. It was opening multiple programs by itself. The fan on the computer was starting to sound like an airplane, so he quickly hit the off button to shut it down. But it didn’t turn off, it was still opening all these different programs and softwares. He doesn’t know what to do, so he just watches in shock.

But just then, it stopped. The last program open was called “notes”.

He sat back down and stared at it. He was about to close all the programs, but then it started typing.

“Wha… WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK?!” He yelled.

What the computer was typing, was personal information that only Don (or a family member) would know.

You were diagnosed with cancer in 1995

Your father’s death occurred only a year after.

Your mother lost her mind because of it, and was sent to a mental institution.

Don began to scream. He didn’t know what to do, what could he do? This computer is obviously not a normal computer.

Fucking cry baby…

Was the last thing it typed before shutting off. Don didn’t see it, as he was now on the floor passed out from shock.

When he woke the next morning, he got up off the floor trying to figure out why he was there. When he saw the laptop on his desk, he took outside to the garbage, and threw it in as hard as he could, hoping it would break.

1 Month Later

Don hasn’t touched an apple product ever since what happened. He has a new job at an office. It made him enough money to get a new apartment far away from his last place. He hasn’t actually told anyone about the computer. I guess he just wanted to pretend it didn’t happen.

Don was dozing off until one of his coworkers came up to him and said, “Hey Don, I need you to print something for me, it’s in your email. I gotta go pick up my daughter at school.” Don looked at him and hesitated to reply. But he eventually managed to say, “Uhh, sure… no problem.”

When he walked over to the printer, the computer hooked up to it was a macbook. The person who put it there was in the other room, so Don went over to him and asked, “Hey could I plug in a different computer to the printer?”

“Why?” he asked.

“I just don’t know how to use a mac” Don said.

“Oh it’s easy, I’ll show you.” He said.

They both walked over to the laptop. “What do you need to print?” he said pulling up the web browser. “Oh, I have it on my email.” Don said.

Don logged in to his gmail and clicked print on the document. As it printed, Don quickly logged out of his email, for obvious reasons. He went to grab the paper that he printed, only to find the old picture of him on the tea cup ride at disneyland.

(End)

Please let me know what you think. - Ukufa 