Playing

I'm doing lab maintenance: resetting my proxy-server configurations, fixing some boot.ini problems, and testing the new SuperOS, when two small boys knock at the lab door.

"Yes?" I ask.
"Please, may we come to practice?"
"Sure." I say, figuring they look quiet and non-troublesome, though I do ask them to send the rubbish first.

I put them on two Ubuntu 10.4 computers, and show them how to use the Applications menu, then get back to my work. When I look over, they're both playing Tetris. Badly.

I'm busy, but it'll just take a minute to teach them the rules, so I ask "Do you know how to play this game?"

"Yes" one of the boys says in a quiet, sweet voice, "I'm building a house."

I was smiling so much from the cuteness I decided to just let them build houses out of tetris blocks. Screw teaching them the 'proper' way to play, they've found their own way.