Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Techno-Savvy Kids

I knew I had one more grandbaby anecdote to share:

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Boston is heavily into Transformers. And last Friday was his sixth birthday, so he was thinking about what gifts he might encourage loved ones to bestow upon him.

Let me level set you by mentioning that this child has been able to point and click since he was about 22 months old.

He went onto Amazon.com and found the Transformers to look at, finding the perfect Transformer for $99.99. He felt firmly that $99.99 was too much to pay, since he expected to have a total of about $46 from his birthday and various chores he's done. So he took his mouse, highlighted the $99.99 price, and attempted to change the price to $45.99.

He couldn't understand what was wrong with his computer that it wouldn't let him change the price.

Gotta love that boy. Is this a hacker-in-the-making?

1 comment:

Traveler said...

Don't let the CIA know about him. They will have recruiters at his front door faster than you can blink!