“Are we there
yet?”
Bilbo
Baggins, The Hobbit* #quote
Today I had to nap again because of new meds I'm trying out. Had a
few seizures while getting to sleep, oi. Going to call CJ tonight to
see if he can hang out. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Frustrated Billionaire's Challenge
Once a frustrated billionaire kept having computer problems.
Viruses, hackers trying to get into his accounts. His wealth made him
a target, but mostly he was very unlucky. He then issued a challenge
to the world. If someone could give him a solution to all his
computer troubles than he would pay them ten million dollars. (The
billionaire had been taxed with computer problems for years.) Now he
didn't mean the problems he was having then. He meant an absolute
guarantee that he would never have computer troubles again. The exact
legal phrasing of his challenge(he made it a legal guarantee of money
to attract people to fix it) “A solution that ensures I will never
have computer problems again.”
People tried a few things. Companies and tech geniuses gave him
software or hardware. But even if they fixed the problem he was
having then they could never guarantee he wouldn't have computer
troubles in the future.
One day though, after many people had given up providing a
guarantee, a young college tech girl arrived with some of her
friends. They had cameras with them. To prove that she presented the
solution to the problem.
She handed him a piece of paper with the solution and her signature
saying to him, “The solution that will ensure that you never have a
computer problem again.” Writing the solution out made it an official legal submission to his challenge for the ten million dollar reward.
The paper told the billionaire to stop using computers.
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