I hate it when I’m working late at night. All’s quiet and dark, when my cursor starts moving across the screen like the pointer on a Ouija Board. It scares the crap out of me. I’m like, “Grandma?”
September 19, 2016 by Deidra Alexander
I hate it when I’m working late at night. All’s quiet and dark, when my cursor starts moving across the screen like the pointer on a Ouija Board. It scares the crap out of me. I’m like, “Grandma?”
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Hi,
Oh yes at times the cursor has a mind of it’s own, and starts doing the sliding thing. It reminds me of that supernatural movie that came out about the ghost living in the internet and picking a computer at random. 🙂
Sorry can’t remember the name of the movie.
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With my imagination, I probably don’t want to know.
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You crack me up!
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I the quiet of the night…and my cat stares at something I cannot see, and she is fixed like stone…that makes the hairs on my neck stand up.
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I hear animals can see things we can’t.
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Shiver!
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She could be trying to get you to go rest! LOL I feel for you though… if you get too scared, we’ll all band together to save you!
Tami
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Goosebumps!
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I used to work as the IT director in a large church. One morning one of the secretaries came running into the suport office yelling, “The devil is in my machine! The devil is in my machine! You have to come and get him out! HELP!!”
You frequently see some pretty interesting things while working in computer support for any business, let alone a church, so I thought this might be of interest to the rest of the techies in the office. I mean, they needed to know how to exhorsize the devil from a computer so I winked at the group and we all got together and trodged down the long hall to the office being infested by the devil himself.
As we all peeked into the office, expecting the worst, we noticed a computer screen full of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs, and the screen was advancing rapidly as we stood there. Without so much as a chuckle or a smile I looked at my crew, strolled over to the keyboard, reached down and flipped the edge of the book she was working with off of her keyboard.
As you can imagine the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs stopped multiplying, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and we all backed out of the office and strolled down the hallway toward our office trying very hard to hold back the volcano of laughter that erupted as soon as we were out of earshot of our friend and colleague.
That day we had saved her computer from the devil himself, the edge of her bible.
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That’s super awesome! It should be in a book somewhere.
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i love when that happens!
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Yikes!
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I’ve had that happen as well.
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That happens to me, too! I’m going to start writing down what letters it stops on.
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Anything good yet?
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I’ve experienced this paranormal activity as well. I wonder what sort of spirit causes this phenomena…
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Interesting! I wish you’d tell us more…
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I’m working on it, but I try to keep it short for blog sakes.
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One time I commented on a blog that burnt toast reminded me of my grandma, and the smoke detector went off. I DID say, “Grandma?”
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It’s funny how our “elders” wait until the afterlife to learn how to use this technology stuff.
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You got that right. My Grams never even saw a computer. I’m not sure she ever used an ATM.
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Yes, it’s so weird when that happens. Of course, late at night, I think we get a little tired so a strange occurrance gets magnified.
I love this condensed story.
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That’s awesome!
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Ha ha, been there watching a horror film on the computer and it happened, not good!
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Totally freaky
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Computers are living things that lay dormant until we stop paying attention, then to do strange things in the hopes of achieving world domination….
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That’s me, slowly taking over the world. 🙂
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No, Deidra – it was just me accessing your bank details! LOL
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Thanks, I’m feel much better. Can you put a little in to tie me over until payday?
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Wait until I come back from the Carribbean!
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yes, working late at night, especially when you do have to wake up, is either because your really into something special and you don’t want let go, or it is not going that good and you can just stop wandering into the net or your computer…:)
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I prefer to think it’s the former. 🙂
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Especially when you’re writing something very scary.
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Grandma: “Jesus of Nazareth Deidra, turn the mouse upside down and leave me alone.”
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Is that kind of like hanging a cross upside down. I have friends who do that when they think some bad mojo has entered their house.
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Meeep, that totally happens to me too. It still freaks me out even when I kinda-sorta know what’s doing it. *shudder*
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Specially alone after midnight.
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Too right! *hides under duvet*
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Wow, your grandma visits weegies my pointer, too. I won’t worry unless she decided to wedgie. 😀
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She was way to serious for wedgies I think.
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I’m glad you actually understood my note. 🙂 I should never comment when I am at work and the phone keeps ringing. 😦
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LOL “The ghost in the Machine.” The computer in my office does a lot more than that. I rarely use it because of stuff like this, but just heard about that Mac Trojan and need to check to see if that’s what’s going on. 😀
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Good luck with technology. I’m much more comfortable with the idea my computer is haunted.
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You are so right! 😀
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That has been happening to mine computer a lot lately! It’s driving me crazy. I see a lot of work ahead of me. 😦
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Exorcism, that’s my technical advice.
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Pretty graphic!
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Thank you so much
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Why aren’t you a comedy writer? Seriously.
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I don’t think I can write a funny story. My life’s way more funny, not me.
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You are seriously funny! How do you say SO MUCH in so few words? God, I love your blog!
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LOL – the thing is, that *does* happen.
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Not to be a grammar nazi, but it’s Ouija, not Weegie (spelled differently, but sounds the same). Weegie is a sometimes derogatory slang for people from Glasgow, Scotland. And I don’t think you meant to disparage Scottish people.
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Then the room’s cold and you there’s a weight on your shoulder…
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Brilliant
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That’s hilarious.
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hahahahahaha!!
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