[ExI] story

[Jason Resch]

I wonder at what age it begins to ask if you are crazy. Is it crazy to
smoke at 9, but not 10?
Or at 10, but not 11, etc.

Perhaps it's crazy regardless of age.

Jason

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:07 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> A lot of bytes have gone theough the bus since I have shared this story,
> and new people have joined.  So here it is:
>
> Around 1980 I bought a PCJr.  It came with a program called Managing Your
> Money.  You have to enter a lot of personal data, including your birthday,
> history of drinking, smoking and so on.
>
> At some point I got an error message which obviously occurred because I
> missed a key.  The message said:
>
> "You are four years old and you smoke?  Are you crazy?"
>
> Best error message ever.
>
> bill w
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