I thank you for your response. I guess the very nature of my question/comment was of a judgmental tone. Clearly, that wasn't my intent, as I was merely curious.
Perhaps you can think of a way to rephrase my initial question in a way that won't come off sounding.. as it did.
I mean that completely seriously.
Thanks.
Okay, the charge is a beer of my choice should we ever meet.
"You know, when I first saw this video I had to double check to make sure it wans't TheOnion."
Okay so far.
"This is almost too silly to be real."
Yeah, but that's what's so great about real life - it's better than fiction... right?
"I mean, its great that she got a free iPad and all, and it was a great gesture on Apple's part,"
True.
"but what made me think this video was a satire was her/the reporter saying that she had been like carefully saving up her pennies for an iPad."
And here's were you can't imagine someone needing to save up to buy something that costs $500. Make that two beers.
"Clearly, she doesn't have a lot of money."
Okay...
"Not to be offensive,"
Yeah, but I have a feeling you're gonna be...
"but what in the HELL does this woman need with an iPad?"
Let's just take a moment and celebrate two things here:
This woman is about to get connected to the net.
She Chose an Apple device.
I like her already. I'm not going to judge her. I'm just happy for her. She is where you were the first day you got connected. If you can remember how that felt, you know your words shouldn't include: "what in the HELL does this woman need with an iPad?"
"Am I missing something?"
"This report makes it sound like she was denied the purchase of some essential house-hold product.. not an arguably luxury product."
I really don't think you meant to be mean here, but you were anything but generous. I can't really write the words for you. But I do want you to close your eyes and picture a senior female member of your own family as the subject of this story, this scenario. Are you going to employ snobbery in relation to her aspirations?
I have no idea why Diane Campbell wanted an iPad. And no, this is not, as I suggested earlier, a Rosa Parks moment. That comment was flippant and itself unworthy. But I can imagine a daughter away at college or uni with whom she may want to keep in touch. In fact we can all imagine a million reasons.
I like real ale.
Have a good evening