Kuala Lumpur May 2024 "I've got a silver machine"
22/05/24 16:03
I bought my first MacBook computer twelve years ago and still have it stored in a cupboard waiting for me to find time to clean the contents and part with it. Made from a silver aluminium alloy it looked stunning compared to the machines I used at work. A few years ago I decided to upgrade to a slightly newer model, again silver in colour but with an improved design and that one is now eleven years old! I have had it repaired twice and it is still functioning but because of its age I can no longer update the operating system or many of the applications I use. It is time for change and I now have the opportunity as I am unexpectedly provided with some money. That itself would be worthy of a blog entry but one less humorous than this will be.
Within my budget is a brand new MacBook Air computer. These are available in four different colours including silver but after all the years of staring at silver I would like a change. After careful study of the options I decide that the light gold colour is for me but they don't have one in that colour at this shop. Now I have a money off voucher that I can use at their stores so I decide to see if I can get it at another location. That proves to be a lot harder to do than I expected but after three days of emails and WhatsApp messages I finally track one down at a shop forty minutes drive from where we live. They reserve it for me to collect the next day.
Both my wife and I woke up feeling unwell but after spending three days looking for this computer I decided we were well enough to get it. The shop brought the one they had put one aside for me out of the storeroom and before I left they asked me to confirm it was the right one. Well the box said it was but when I opened it I noticed the colour was a bit more silvery than I imagined but maybe that was due to the lighting? I left the shop clutching the box and my wife and I headed back to our car. She too wanted to see what it looked like so I opened the box and showed it to her. "It's silver, I thought you were getting a different colour?" I looked at it closely and I had to agree it was silver, I'd bought a silver machine.
The computer was the right spec (well, the box said it was), only the colour was wrong. I decided not to go back to the shop as we were both now tired and hungry. I spent most of the journey home apologising to my wife for getting her to drive me to that shop when I could have picked up a similar computer at a store only ten minutes from where we live. They must have made a mistake when they put one aside for me. I would deal with them later. So after a refreshing lunch we got home and I opened the box and stared at the new computer. Inside the box was a slightly gold coloured machine, exactly what I had ordered. I stared in disbelief and called my wife over to have a look. "It's not silver. Is that the same one?", she said so I don't have a silver machine after all!
This blog entry has a perfectly rational explanation and that is the lighting in the shop and shopping mall must have been such that it's subtle gold colour was made to look more silvery than it actually is in my house. I have included this story to remind you that when things don't quite work out as you want don't be too hasty to blame others.
Within my budget is a brand new MacBook Air computer. These are available in four different colours including silver but after all the years of staring at silver I would like a change. After careful study of the options I decide that the light gold colour is for me but they don't have one in that colour at this shop. Now I have a money off voucher that I can use at their stores so I decide to see if I can get it at another location. That proves to be a lot harder to do than I expected but after three days of emails and WhatsApp messages I finally track one down at a shop forty minutes drive from where we live. They reserve it for me to collect the next day.
Both my wife and I woke up feeling unwell but after spending three days looking for this computer I decided we were well enough to get it. The shop brought the one they had put one aside for me out of the storeroom and before I left they asked me to confirm it was the right one. Well the box said it was but when I opened it I noticed the colour was a bit more silvery than I imagined but maybe that was due to the lighting? I left the shop clutching the box and my wife and I headed back to our car. She too wanted to see what it looked like so I opened the box and showed it to her. "It's silver, I thought you were getting a different colour?" I looked at it closely and I had to agree it was silver, I'd bought a silver machine.
The computer was the right spec (well, the box said it was), only the colour was wrong. I decided not to go back to the shop as we were both now tired and hungry. I spent most of the journey home apologising to my wife for getting her to drive me to that shop when I could have picked up a similar computer at a store only ten minutes from where we live. They must have made a mistake when they put one aside for me. I would deal with them later. So after a refreshing lunch we got home and I opened the box and stared at the new computer. Inside the box was a slightly gold coloured machine, exactly what I had ordered. I stared in disbelief and called my wife over to have a look. "It's not silver. Is that the same one?", she said so I don't have a silver machine after all!
This blog entry has a perfectly rational explanation and that is the lighting in the shop and shopping mall must have been such that it's subtle gold colour was made to look more silvery than it actually is in my house. I have included this story to remind you that when things don't quite work out as you want don't be too hasty to blame others.