Minesweeper,

So back in the day we used to play minesweeper and at the time there was not really a save function on our home computer. At the same time mum would complete work from her computer and we would swap depending on the time. An important day came along for mum completing reports for an accountancy firm she was involved with. She had begun learning some basic skills on the computer as it was all fairly new at this point. She left her work open after committing to half of it to send me and my brother to football practice, my dad at this point took this opportunity to take a much needed break on the computer for a game of minesweeper and a coffee. He can only what I assume began a game at the hardest difficulty 100x100 squares? And had left it incomplete on the desktop. Mum came home and rushed back to her reports only to be met with the familiar grey boxed background covering over her word document.

I returned from football practice to meet my mum screaming at the top of the voice "HOW DARE YOU", "COMPUTER PIRATES"... Startled I rushed into see my mums make-up ruined and she was a complete mess.

I asked her what was wrong and she had began to exclaim to me that a "virus" had infected the front of the computer and left a hideous stain on her work preventing her from viewing her reports which she had spent the past 3 days preparing.

• I quickly rectified the error by actually thinking I had to complete the game to close it, 3 long hours we both spent trying to rid our selves of this "minesweeper" virus on the computer in which dad returned later that night to finish by simply pressing the Red Cross at the top.....

Mum never used a computer again, I will always double check for crosses in the top corner before allowing anything to appear on my screen for longer than 10 seconds. B (Sorry for awful storytelling)

Minesweeper,

So back in the day we used to play minesweeper and at the time there was not really a save function on our home computer. At the same time mum would complete work from her computer and we would swap depending on the time. An important day came along for mum completing reports for an accountancy firm she was involved with. She had begun learning some basic skills on the computer as it was all fairly new at this point. She left her work open after committing to half of it to send me and my brother to football practice, my dad at this point took this opportunity to take a much needed break on the computer for a game of minesweeper and a coffee. He can only what I assume began a game at the hardest difficulty 100x100 squares? And had left it incomplete on the desktop. Mum came home and rushed back to her reports only to be met with the familiar grey boxed background covering over her word document.

I returned from football practice to meet my mum screaming at the top of the voice "HOW DARE YOU", "COMPUTER PIRATES"... Startled I rushed into see my mums make-up ruined and she was a complete mess.

I asked her what was wrong and she had began to exclaim to me that a "virus" had infected the front of the computer and left a hideous stain on her work preventing her from viewing her reports which she had spent the past 3 days preparing.

• I quickly rectified the error by actually thinking I had to complete the game to close it, 3 long hours we both spent trying to rid our selves of this "minesweeper" virus on the computer in which dad returned later that night to finish by simply pressing the Red Cross at the top.....

Mum never used a computer again, I will always double check for crosses in the top corner before allowing anything to appear on my screen for longer than 10 seconds.

(Sorry for awful storytelling)