The Letter X
Monday, Feb. 24, 2003, 2:49 a.m.

Question: What X?

What Did I Learn: Better an X than an S.

Do you every think about the x key on your computer keyboard? I do. Why, you might ask? You might jump to some hasty and highly inappropriate conclusions. You�d be wrong.

I am thinking about my x key quite a bit lately because I don�t have one anymore. I have a little blank spot on my laptop where it used to be. How did I lose my x key you might ask. Answer � I have kids. Enough said. The x is sitting on my coffee table in the living room so I guess it�s not really lost. However, no amount of fiddling with it will make the x fit back in the empty space and stay there. There was a brief incident with the s key but that is another story.

Being a parent with a work laptop is a dangerous business. At some point the kids want to use it and at some point you are going to be in a magnanimous mood and let them use it. Next thing you know you are looking for your x. It�s not anything that happens on purpose but that doesn�t make it less annoying or inconvenient � there you are without an x after all, and after just getting that pesky s back in place on the keyboard. Of course, an x is much less traumatic than an s. I lost the solid and serviceable s over a long period of time while my son was able to dislodge the slightly xany and daring x within a few minutes of laying hands on my dear laptop.

Only a mother could get herself into a situation like this and only a mother would be willing to continue typing away without a proper x to type upon.

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