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A Baseball Story
Let me tell you a story. It's not a long story, and there are illustrations.
There was once a grumpy old man named Gordon who wanted to renew his season tickets to his local baseball team. One fine summer's day he received an email telling him how to do this.
Gordon's grumpy old heart was filled with joy. He immediately clicked on the place in the email that read "Click here...". A new tab magically opened in his browser. It showed him a video! An exciting video! When the video was done a new screen appeared.
"Look," said Gordon, "It says 'CLICK TO RENEW NOW'. I shall click there." Gordon clicked there.
"Oh," said Gordon. "This is my log-in screen. Well, I guess I better log in!" Gordon clicked "LOGIN".
"Well, isn't that funny," said Gordon. "I now need to choose between my active account and a bogus one that the Nationals organization created by mistake in 2011 or thereabouts. Well, that's ok, I'll just click LOG IN on my real account." Gordon clicked LOG IN on his real account.
"Goodness!" said Gordon, "Here is another screen urging me to renew now by clicking here! There certainly is no shortage of these screens. Well, one must work hard for anything good that one wants. I'll click where it says OK." Gordon clicked where it said "OK".
"Um," said Gordon. "So the sole effect of clicking on the last pop-up was to make the pop-up disappear and reveal the 'Overview' screen where there is YET ANOTHER place I need to click to renew now. I don't mind telling you, I'm a little annoyed at this process. But what the hell, I'll click it." Gordon clicked where is said "CLICK TO RENEW NOW."
"Oh my motherfucking Christ, fuck this shit," said Gordon. Gordon fucked this shit. And he lived happily every after.
There was once a grumpy old man named Gordon who wanted to renew his season tickets to his local baseball team. One fine summer's day he received an email telling him how to do this.
Gordon's grumpy old heart was filled with joy. He immediately clicked on the place in the email that read "Click here...". A new tab magically opened in his browser. It showed him a video! An exciting video! When the video was done a new screen appeared.
"Look," said Gordon, "It says 'CLICK TO RENEW NOW'. I shall click there." Gordon clicked there.
"Oh," said Gordon. "This is my log-in screen. Well, I guess I better log in!" Gordon clicked "LOGIN".
"Well, isn't that funny," said Gordon. "I now need to choose between my active account and a bogus one that the Nationals organization created by mistake in 2011 or thereabouts. Well, that's ok, I'll just click LOG IN on my real account." Gordon clicked LOG IN on his real account.
"Goodness!" said Gordon, "Here is another screen urging me to renew now by clicking here! There certainly is no shortage of these screens. Well, one must work hard for anything good that one wants. I'll click where it says OK." Gordon clicked where it said "OK".
"Um," said Gordon. "So the sole effect of clicking on the last pop-up was to make the pop-up disappear and reveal the 'Overview' screen where there is YET ANOTHER place I need to click to renew now. I don't mind telling you, I'm a little annoyed at this process. But what the hell, I'll click it." Gordon clicked where is said "CLICK TO RENEW NOW."
"Oh my motherfucking Christ, fuck this shit," said Gordon. Gordon fucked this shit. And he lived happily every after.
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