Here's my entry I did last year for a contest to win a year's Broadband.
Why do I need a year of broadband access ?
Two words ! TEENAGE DAUGHTER. Yes, run away in terror I say, save yourselves.
I'm a single dad looking after a teenage daughter and a pre-teen son.
We each have a computer in our rooms, each having a dialup modem
so Internet sharing is out of the question considering the lack of speed,
even though we are all connected to a Lan.
So there's always a bit of drama when it comes to time sharing the connection.
Now I don't have much problem with the boy, as he rarely logs on.
He much prefers simpler pleasures like
falling out of trees, eating live lizards and such.
But my teenage daughter is where my problem lies.
And it's all to do with her mind boggling multi tasking abilities.
She has the ability to eat dinner, listen to her favourite Linkin Park CD with her head phones on at full volume,
do her homework assignments and chat to anywhere from 10 to 100 people on msn ALL AT THE SAME TIME !
A pretty amazing feat no doubt, but she does this nearly every night from 4 in the afternoon
till sometimes 11 at night, depending on the amount of *cough* homework she has.
After 20 or 30 unsuccessful attempts to get her attention due to the hearing impairment and possible brain damage caused by the loud music,
she finally responds and I say that I would like to log on for a bit.
"I haven't finished my homework dad, you'll have to wait."
"You haven't finished your homework because you are chatting to the rest of the human race at the same time", I retort.
"I have to chat because we are discussing our homework and we are helping each other", she says so convincing that I actually feel guilty.
So it's Daughter 1 Dad 0
She has it all worked out that no matter what, when she logs on only a natural disaster or something of that magnitude will get her off prematurely.
And to make matters worse, if by some bizarre chance I actually log on before she does,
she will come to my door the instant I've logged on and continually ask when I'm logging off.
She will not cease asking this question until I have logged off.
And it's game set and match to the undisputed champion of internet hogging.
So there you have it folks,
my Internet life in shambles because of the terror from the other side of the house, my lovely teenage daughter.
LOL I didn't win the competition either.
Why do I need a year of broadband access ?
Two words ! TEENAGE DAUGHTER. Yes, run away in terror I say, save yourselves.
I'm a single dad looking after a teenage daughter and a pre-teen son.
We each have a computer in our rooms, each having a dialup modem
so Internet sharing is out of the question considering the lack of speed,
even though we are all connected to a Lan.
So there's always a bit of drama when it comes to time sharing the connection.
Now I don't have much problem with the boy, as he rarely logs on.
He much prefers simpler pleasures like
falling out of trees, eating live lizards and such.
But my teenage daughter is where my problem lies.
And it's all to do with her mind boggling multi tasking abilities.
She has the ability to eat dinner, listen to her favourite Linkin Park CD with her head phones on at full volume,
do her homework assignments and chat to anywhere from 10 to 100 people on msn ALL AT THE SAME TIME !
A pretty amazing feat no doubt, but she does this nearly every night from 4 in the afternoon
till sometimes 11 at night, depending on the amount of *cough* homework she has.
After 20 or 30 unsuccessful attempts to get her attention due to the hearing impairment and possible brain damage caused by the loud music,
she finally responds and I say that I would like to log on for a bit.
"I haven't finished my homework dad, you'll have to wait."
"You haven't finished your homework because you are chatting to the rest of the human race at the same time", I retort.
"I have to chat because we are discussing our homework and we are helping each other", she says so convincing that I actually feel guilty.
So it's Daughter 1 Dad 0
She has it all worked out that no matter what, when she logs on only a natural disaster or something of that magnitude will get her off prematurely.
And to make matters worse, if by some bizarre chance I actually log on before she does,
she will come to my door the instant I've logged on and continually ask when I'm logging off.
She will not cease asking this question until I have logged off.
And it's game set and match to the undisputed champion of internet hogging.
So there you have it folks,
my Internet life in shambles because of the terror from the other side of the house, my lovely teenage daughter.
LOL I didn't win the competition either.
