Abort, Retry, Ignore

[AltumAngel]

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,

System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,

Longing for the warmth of bed sheets,

Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:

Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the drawer.

Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command

But got instead a reprimand:

It read, "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?

These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.

Carefully, I weighed my options.

These three seemed to be the top ones.

Clearly, I must now adopt one -

Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

With my fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard

bending,

Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,

Praying for some guarantee

Finally I pressed a key -

But on the screen what did I see?

Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

I tried to catch the chips off-guard - I pressed again, but twice as

hard.

Luck was just not in the cards,

I saw what I had seen before.

Now I typed in desperation,

Trying random combinations.

Still there came the incantation -

Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore."

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted;

Getting up, I turned away and paced across the office floor.

And then I saw an awful sight,

A bold and blinding flash of light,

A lightning bolt that cut the night and shook me to my very core.

The PC screen collapsed and died,

"Oh no - my database!" I cried.

I thought I heard a voice reply,

"You'll see your data - nevermore!" To this day I do not know the place to which our data goes.

Perhaps it goes to Heaven where the angels have it stored.

But as for productivity -

Well, I fear that it goes straight to hel_l.

And that's the tale I have to tell -

Your choice: Abort, Retry, Ignore.

[suegha]

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[pattayadave]

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thats putting it mildly

pure and utter gutter scutter