I don't type very well.
When I went to school we did not have typing as part of the curriculum. And if we had had it, surely no "real boys" would have chosen to learn how to type. Real boys had "shop" and girls had "home-ec."
The only men I knew of who typed were the journalists who sat in smoke filled news room with their Fedoras on and rolled up shirt sleeves, pounding two-fingered on some typewriter with the inevitable cigarette dangling from their mouths, or the writer of the next major novel, always in need of a shave ( this is way before the fashionable , constant stubble ) sitting in an unheated room with a bottle of something strong, cigarettes and surely either consumption or worse, but typing, typing away.
These were the typing males I knew of. Girls typed because that was what girls did to get a job, but not guys.
It all came back to me the other night watching some program where a distraught father of a teenage son who had been led astray by web-friends, a father who looked like he spent a lot of time taking his kid to ball practice and who would be secretly proud when the kid got plastered the first time or when he discovered a condom in his bedroom, showing that the kid was all man, all a chip off the old block.
So imagine my surprise when this dad sat down at his son's computer and started typing and communicating with the creeps who got to his son. He typed at ( it seemed to me ) lightning speed, not at all the old two-finger system that men are supposed to use. This guy could type, and I bet he is not the only one.
In truth, I am the dinosaur; I am the one to be made fun of, the guy who cannot type.
Well, better two fingers than none at all.
2 comments:
Have you ever seen a Policeman type his repport? That's why I never ends up as a Policeman - I use all my ten fingers. Many of my freinds uses the typing system from the bible: " Serch and you'll find". But I still get their messages - is that odd? If you type with only two fingers you're aware of what you type, that's not always my thoughts that is typed, sometimes only part of it, because the fingers think they can match the brain in speed.
See I cant even type it when I try. The spelling is wrong, but anyhow I think you know what I meen.
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