”-and when she told me, I just couldn’t deal. So I left, just like I always did. Just like my father.”

Tom, thank you for sharing all that. Have one of these tissues. Do you feel like you’ve made a forward step?

“I do, Jack, I really do. Can I maybe have a second tissue?”

As many as you like, Tom, you don’t even need to ask. Let’s hear from someone else now. HP Compaq 2GHz Celeron 17” Widescreen Notebook, tell us more about your loss.

Well, with me, it was the teasing. See, I’m in the tech industry, which is a really high stress field. And, you know, growing up, everyone in a position of authority says, you know, play the hand you’re dealt. But I’ve got a 2.0GHz Intel Celeron 550 Processor with 1MB L2 cache and 533MHz front side bus, and most people think that’s nothing. But, you know, what are they doing? Playing Bejeweled on their lunch break and writing out memos in work? Maybe looking for, um, pee oh are en?

You can say porn, HP Compaq 2GHz Celeron 17” Widescreen Notebook. You can say anything you want here. No one will judge you. We’re all friends.

Thanks, Jack. So I get a lot of teasing. And it isn’t fair, you know, because I’ve got a 160GB SATA hard drive and a LightScribe burner that handles DVDs. +R, -R, both kinds of RW and CDs too! That’s more than that stupid iAir thing, and women are all over that. Oh, it’s so thin, oh, it’s so cute, oh, I want one of those, I hear it all day. You know, I can run Vista and I’ve got three USB ports and a 17 inch WXGA anti-glare screen! I’m Energy Star qualified! I’ve got 2 gigs of SDRAM!

How does that make you feel?

It makes me feel bad, Jack! It makes me feel like getting out my included recovery discs and just wiping everything!

We all feel that way sometimes, HP Compaq 2GHz Celeron 17” Widescreen Notebook. The important thing is that we talk about it, and then move on.

I guess so, Jack. Can… can I have one of Tom’s tissues?

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