MISSISSAUGA – Danielle Norstrom has confirmed that after hours of “shouting and carrying on” the 2 terabyte portable media player and hard drive that their son Derek, 23, gave to her husband, Rick, for Father’s Day, is now operational.
Mrs. Norstrom says her son and his father began their Father’s Day bonding around the device at 2pm on Sunday afternoon. “I could tell because that’s when the yelling started,” said Danielle Norstrom, the 54 year old wife to Rick and mother to Derek. “Derek had plugged it all in, but it still wasn’t showing up on the TV screen.”
“He hadn’t set the TV to input three,” explained Derek. “I was telling him to give me the remote because he had already spent ten minutes trying to figure it out. Frankly, it’s very easy, and I was starting to get bored.” After a few more minutes of insisting he could figure it out on his own, Norstrom Sr. relented and Norstrom Jr. was able to tune the TV to the device and get it powered on. This triumph, however, was short-lived.
Tensions escalated yet again as Norstrom Sr. shouted “what’s it doing now?” while the device commenced a software update, startling Mrs. Norstrom in the kitchen who told him to keep it down.
“He was just standing there screaming ‘why won’t it just do what I want it to do?’” said Derek Norstrom. “I tried to explain to him what a software update was, but he just refused to pay attention at all.”
“He came in to the kitchen, shouted ‘bloody thing is taking forever’, grabbed a bag of baked low-fat Lays, and then stormed right back out,” recalled Mrs. Norstrom. “It had only been a half-hour since he’d opened the box.”
“After the software update finished he calmed down and I was able to play some of the movies he had on his flash drive,” added Norstrom Jr. “This impressed him sufficiently that he was finally able to calm down.”
At press time Rick Norstrom was beaming about his son’s gift to his friend, Dave Armstrong, who was over for a beer, despite having forgotten how to get back to the main menu.
Mrs. Norstrom confirms that at this time her husband has still not read the manual.
