Wow!, the life saving mantra of the day !.. don’t you agree.. Imagine, you have multiple windows open, IE , Photoshop , Excel, PowerPoint… and I guess PLM for some of my friends. Bham !… the system just fails to respond. You fanatically hit the numlock and finally confirm that your system has decided to hang itself . Before anymore damage is done, and without gibving much response time , instinct takes you to hit Alt + Ctrl + Del. Well, system restarts , bells jingle in the background , Halleluah ! … activity restored. If you had enabled autosave, then not much data is lost.
How I wish even our lives also had the Alt + Ctrl + Del option. Unlike multiple windows in our system, we have multiple train of thoughts hovering above and inside us. And on one unsuspecting moment, we tend to give the wrong response for train of thought… At times such as these, I would wish that the earth would swallow me alive… I sincerely wish human life also had Alt + Ctrl + Del ..Here are some of the scenarios where I would just love those three keys..
Scenario 1 : –
The team ( I am here .. guys ) is brainstorming over the recent project that was delegated to us. All of a sudden a brainwave hits me.. and germ of an idea begins to take shape. But “me first” takes over, and I just blurt it out as it comes to my mind.. I mean.. live really.. I start thinking out loud… Well, it so turns out that I bite my tongue before I make further fool of myself… Darn ! I wish …I could Alt + Ctrl + Del
Scenario 2 :-
I get up at the wrong side of my bed and trip over the remote. The maid decides to take a day off with no intimation. With bread and butter for breakfast, we hurry with our routine. I am so caught up with my agenda at work, that I don’t realize the signal turn green. The consistent honking from the car behind makes me jittery. Accidentally I hit the reverse gear in an attempt to move forward and ram into already pissed off commuter… Dear God!… Give me Alt + Ctrl + Del key to my life… this one time.
Scenario 3 :-
The house is a total chaos. Guests are pouring in at our home as a family function is on the way. Our house is one of the key accommodation facilty for the extended family because Mother Superior ( The great grand mother of the family) momentarily resides here. She is my great-grand-mother-in-law . So there is an added responsibility to appease her and in-house guests and visitors who drop in to chat with Mother superior. For about 12 people freshly brewd filter coffee was prepared and elegantly served . 1 liter of milk was used for the preparation and 15 – 20 sp sugar was added ( So I thought).. Remember the movie “Cheeni Kum”….. it seems in total confusion.. I added salt instead of sugar… Every room is occupied with members of varied age groups.. I was not spared a space to save my face… oh! Dear Lord ! in heaven… Grant me my three wishes … I mean three keys
These are the worst case scenarios in my life where I desperately wish for a restart. I am sure you too would have something similar to share….. So when was the first ( or middle or last) time you desperately wished that something like this.. C’mon.. there is nothing to feel embarrsed about this.. anyway.. it cannot be worse than what happened to me…
Ctrl+Alt+Del instances are in everyone’s life .I have one such embrassing moment in my life !
My uncle came home after a long tiring day to find that no one was at home except me nd my cousin.I offered to prepare a quick upma for him for which he accepted instantaneously. Poor soul he would never doubted that I would end up giving a hot upma with actually no salt :P.Thanks to my aunt who had some pickle at home, he managed to eat it.But still people pull my legs that I could prepare upma quickly without salt
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Welcome here Ramya,
lol and.. poor uncle.
well.. one person’s goofup is other person’s anecdote..
today there is one more reason to laugh
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I thought I was the only person to add salt in milk. U too huh. I am not alone doing these stuff.
well priya…
“we are never alone”… isnt it.. ?
The keys of redemption!
I used to wish the same, but in a little primitive way though. Rewind incidences. A good simile!
There are countless instances, big and small, I could think of!
Once when the vehicle I was driving rolled down from Thirumala
Once when I gave blank papers in the board exams
Once when my hard disk crashed, because I was not using a UPS
Sometimes, for not having visitied someone who died recently
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Shiva..
Sorry to know about those “irreeversible” moments… esp the last one..
no consolation would suffice 🙁