Modesty

My sister just reminded me something that I am quite pleased with. My family attended a Federation of American Scientist dinner in which two people were being honored. There was a video that one of the winners wished to show but the staff couldn't get it to play...They scrambled about forever while the woman continued to talk on and on and on, waiting for the video to play...it was SO painful, like literally she talked for like 45 minutes. The event was attended by all high profile scientists (including Obama's science advisor) and through out the woman's speech various scientists would saunter smugly up to the television to join the struggle of playing the DVD. Soon enough though their confidence turned to failure and a new tide would come up for an attempt to prove themselves. Needless to say they all failed and eventually gave up. When the girl originally in charge of playing the video returned to her seat (next to me) I asked her "is this a dvd your playing...?" (I recognized the format of the main menu page--and just wanted to confirm). When she responded in the affirmative I said, "You need to press play."

All these scientists who had rewired the television/audio system because "there was no sound!!" had no sound because they never pressed play! DUH. We she scurried up to the laptop plugged into the television, pressed play and volia it worked!

My Dad even jestingly shouted "all these famous scientist and it took my teenage daughter to fix it!"