I came home from my usual delivery route yesterday and was welcomed by less than pleasant looks from Sam and Sara.
"Errr... what's up?" I asked...
"Papa... there's a naughty picture in your PC."
"Say what?"
"Yes" said Sara, my precocious 7 year-old, the rainbow that brightens my day and the storm cloud that rains on my mistakes.
"There was a naughty picture of an uncle and auntie without clothes".
Oh Gawd... I must have been infected with a virus... me thought.
I had just set my PC's screensaver to "My Pictures Slideshow" and all was running smoothly for a week, displaying random photos of family fun times and now this? Quick as Dash-Dash Incredible, I disabled the screensaver until I found the offending image. True enough, there was a little animated doo-hickie of a cartoon couple doing the world's oldest recreational activity.
"Oooops" says me "I don't know how that got there..."
"Yeah right" says mummy...
Of course I know how it got there. I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm a real, red-blooded Man! You know how it is... I DON'T ask for pictures to be sent to me but friends ALWAYS send titbits that adults would consider "funny" but kids consider "naughty".... Anyway, I suppose this picture got downloaded instead of deleted. Crap on me.
"Damn... my mind quickly raced to think of how to explain myself out of this predicament"
"Papa... it must be a computer virus that sent you that picture." chips in Sam, my technically savvy and totally understanding clone (I mean son).
"Yes"... I've cleaned the drive now. Everything's okay.
Oh all right... I chickened out. Thank god it wasn't PORN! Let this be a lesson to all you out there. Make sure your drive's clean!
Here's what Sara thought of my little indescretion.
