Sue rang me because her computer was crashing.
"After I use it for a while I get a blue screen and then I have to shut it down." She said.
"Do you remember what the blue screen said?" I inquired.
"Oh yes I wrote it down, fatal exception OE."
"Ok I get it, can you bring it here? I will need to check it, could be a faulty memory chip or anything."
"Ok give me your address and I will bring it straight around, my kids need it for their homework."
A knock on the door came about 20 minutes later, when I opened it a woman in her early 30's was standing there. She was about 5' 6" with short blond hair and a pleasant face, smiling. She was wearing a shapeless dress that sort of hung from the shoulders and made it impossible to tell what her figure was like but I would bet she wasn't overweight.
"Bill?" she inquired.
"You must be Sue, I will carry in your PC for you."
"Thanks it is in the car."
I brought it in and told her I would ring her when it was done. After running a memory test on it and finding nothing I opened the case and saw it was full of fluff and dust. I vacuumed it out and gave the processor heatsink special attention first sucking the dust out then putting the vac on blow and blowing it out. After that I ran it up and played a game on it, worked fine.
Of course I looked through the hard drive but it had nothing much on it, some homework stuff and some games was about all. I shut it down and gave Sue a ring and told her it was done and she could pick it up any time she liked. She was most appreciative and said she would be right over. About 20 minutes later she collected her PC and paid me and went. Overall she was very pleasant to deal with, I had no idea where all this would leave tho.
I didn't hear from her for about 3 weeks, when she rang to say she was having some other trouble with the computer. For some reason they had lost the printer driver and had no idea how to set it up and one of the games she had on it was playing up. Also she had just got a pre paid Internet connection and wondered if I could set it up for her. I told her I would be over that afternoon.
It was a nice brick veneer home with nice gardens, your average suburban house. I knocked on the door and Sue opened it, wearing a smile and a similar shapeless dress, it was a hot day and wondered if this woman ever wore shorts or short skirt. She showed me in and I proceeded to start work.
I setup her printer first, printing a test page. Then I backup up the saved games, booted into safe mode and uninstalled the game and deleted the directory. I re-booted and reinstalled the game, which then worked fine, so I copied back the saved games. Then I setup her Internet connection. Once that was done I called Sue over and showed her the Internet.
"Will you be chatting on it?" I asked
"Oh, I don't know really, I hadn't thought about it at all."
"Well I will setup Yahoo messenger and another chat program for you and give you a start on chatting, can I add my yahoo id so you have someone on your list?"
"Sure that would be nice, then I can bug you if I have problems" she said "but what will your wife think of you chatting to strange women on the net, or do you do it all the time anyway?"
"My wife passed away 2 years ago." I said
"Oh I am sorry..."
"That's ok I am mostly over it, it is harder for the kids, and anyway your not strange" I said with a laugh.
"My husband died 4 years ago so I know how you feel. It is hard at first but you manage."
"Your right there" I said wistfully "I better go got some stuff to do but if you connect tonight we can chat on line.".
"Ok, and thanks."
So with that she paid me and I left. At least I knew she was not married and she knew I wasn't.
That night we chatted. She told me that she was really shy and it was a wonder she had even rung me the first time. She had not gone out with any guys since her husband died and got the Internet connection because she was quite lonely. She also suggested that I would have heaps of girlfriends. I told her that I had met a couple but nothing steady. We chatted for hours and I gave her some URL's to look at.
This went on for a few weeks, each time a bit friendlier and more relaxed. She even laughed when I called her sexy. She asked me about the web-cam sites as she had seen them and I told her about them and also told her I had a web-cam and yahoo, which we were using, would support web-cams. I asked her if she wanted a demo and turned it on for her. She was intrigued with it and wanted to know more, so I told her she was welcome to come over any time and have a demo.
"Do you really mean that?"
"Of course, you can go on cam if you want, there is a good cam site I know where everyone chats and some are on cam. Come over, I am free tomorrow afternoon if you like."
"Ok, I don't think I could go on cam but it will be interesting. One o'clock tomorrow ok?"
"Fine by me."
So at one o'clock there was a knock on my door and Sue was there, still in the tent dress and I really wondered what she was hiding. We sat down at the PC and I connected with the site.
"You can go on the site without a cam and see others and chat but it is more fun with a cam."
I was dying to show her some nudity "accidentally" to see how she would react, so I looked through the list to see if someone was naked.
"Oh" she squealed, "He's naked and oh dear..."
"Yeah" I laughed "lots of that on here too, guys girls and couples, but lots dressed too depending on what you want."