by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Another instance of “don’t judge a book by its cover” slaps me in the face.<\/strong><\/p>\n I bought my wife an Android tablet for Christmas. If you know my wife, you will need a couple of minutes to regain your composure and resume breathing. Okay, we continue.<\/p>\n I, being the smart computing person that I am, was going to have it all set up for her so that when she opened the box, it would have all the apps and all that good stuff. I was staying in a motel, and the WiFi in the motel was a bit odd (that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it). Despite being the smart computing person that I am, I couldn’t connect the new Android tablet to the Internet.<\/p>\n I was sitting in the motel lobby, when this fella’\u2014if you saw him with his front teeth missing and his belly hanging over his belt, you would know why I call him a “fella'”\u2014who worked the night shift looked over my shoulder and asked what I was doing.<\/p>\n After several shrugs and just-leave-me-alone-because-of-the-smart-computing-person-that-I-am looks, I handed the non-cooperative Android tablet to the fella’. In five minutes, he handed it back to me fully connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n “Sometimes they act a little funny,” was his reply or some other folksy saying that a fella’ with no front teeth, his belly hanging over his belt, and scratching out a living as a night clerk would utter.<\/p>\n Being the smart computer person that I am, I had to admit, well, I don’t know what I had to admit, but I had to admit something to myself about Android tablets, motel WiFi, and night clerk fella’s. I guess the big admission is that the night clerk fixed my Android tablet when I couldn’t. No, you can’t judge a book by its cover. And yes, you can learn a few things from just about anybody, so keep your notice-er working and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Another instance of “don’t judge a book by its cover” slaps me in the face. I bought my wife an Android tablet for Christmas. If you know my wife, you will need a couple of minutes to regain your composure and resume breathing. Okay, we continue. I, being the smart computing person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,90,20,284],"tags":[234,207,142,285],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-education","category-learning","category-notice","tag-america","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}