All that you have is your soul (Tracy Chapman).

Thursday 30 March 2006

Oh ****!

I confiscated a swanky little phone this morning from one of my students.
Unfortunately, she didn’t turn it off before the “hand-over”, so I had to figure out how to do so myself (after the end of the lesson).

Whilst fiddling around looking for the on/off button, I pressed “record video” instead….and soon realised (in a moment of sheer horror) that I had just filmed myself (THREE times!) looking at the lens in sheer exasperation, trying to work how to turn the damn thing off.

Having entered an Everest-like learning curve, I eventually managed to delete the said video files and find the pesky button. Thank G-d those machines don’t have a recycle bin.

I have learned my lesson. Next time, I’ll get the kid to switch off the machine before handing over.

This is truly the stuff of nightmares.

1 comment:

I'm not even supposed to be here today said...

You're lucky that's all that got recorded. Those little camera-phones (brave new world machines) freak me out. Not that you have anything to hide, but they're still scary!