Poor Little Mouse

My mother has been using a video player for over twenty years and still has problems handling the technological requirements. She can put a video in the slot but refuses to take it back out in case she "ends up pushing it in further". She is equally inept with computers - her fingers hover over the keys like she is choosing a chocolate. When I told her to move the mouse to the left, she picked it up and put it on the screen. She thought it acted like a magnet. But it's no surprise; technology moves on so quickly. When I was at school, the computer mouse was a real mouse and we had to move him around by dragging a piece of cheese under his nose. But the mouse was a pretty clever animal and, when he taught himself to scroll over, this was seized upon by Microsoft and a middle wheel became standard. Mr Gates may well have given billions to his charity but he has never compensated the poor mouse for stealing his idea, and the poor mouse now works in a laboratory trying on cosmetics and cancers. The modern world is cruel.