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We’ve had a 17″ HP computer monitor sitting in a box in the garage since we moved to Pensacola almost a year ago. Prior to that, the monitor was sitting in storage in Norfolk for almost a year. Today, while cleaning out the garage I finally decided that we aren’t ever going to use that monitor again so I brought it over to the drop box for the Navy Morale, Welfare, and Recreation thrift store.

When I dropped it off, a woman came up to me and asked me if it worked. I told her that it had worked great when we replaced it and it’s just been sitting in a box in our garage since we replaced it with a flat screen monitor.

So then she asked me if “all it needs is a hard drive or whatever.”

I told her that it isn’t a computer but just a monitor so to make it work it would pretty much need a whole computer–including a hard drive.

“But it shouldn’t need much, right?”

“Just a whole computer,” I replied.

“Well the neighbor girl comes over and uses my computer a lot so maybe I’ll take it for her to use. If it works.”

By this point, I was pretty well convinced that the woman didn’t have a clue that a monitor is not a computer but only displays information from a computer.

“Well, it worked great when I disconnected it from the computer that’s now using a flatscreen monitor. I hope your neighbor’s girl enjoys it.”

I really didn’t know what else to say.