Here's your Etch-a-Sketch...

Computers are wonderful tools in the hands of the right people.

Statler and Waldorf are not the right people.

They should not be allowed to touch anything even related to a computer because, well, they don't understand how it works, they don't ask if they don't know (before they start hitting buttons), and even when you explain the most basic task, as soon as the explanation ends it is forgotten.

Today at the Muppet Daily News, Waldorf had to print the subscription renewal postcards.

It's not like she really has to do anything high tech.
There is a printed sheet of instructions ... exactly what to hit, when to hit enter, etc.
No thought. Just following directions.

Then she has to print the postcards.

Again, written out instructions that tell her, step by step, how to do it .. including the most basic steps, such as "1. Put the postcard paper in the printer."

Okay, let's be honest... she messed up starting with step one (above).
Yes, really.

Then the postcard stock keeps sticking... a combination of it being thicker than regular paper and the average humidity level here being around 95 percent.

If it sticks (and yes, this is on the instruction sheet), you open the paper drawer, close the paper drawer, and hit the button labeled "OK."

Simple enough?
One would think.
One would be wrong.
Nothing is so simple that Waldorf can't screw it up.
Today, she took that to an all new level.
She would get the order wrong (open drawer, hit 'ok', close drawer).
She would hit the wrong button, changing what was on the digital menu (which, until she hits the wrong thing, actually reads "Hit OK").
Then, when she hits the wrong button, the printer goes off into Never-Neverland, printing other things. Mostly this 3-page program thing, built into the printer.

So she did the only "logical" thing... she turned the printer off.
Okay, logical in HER mind.

She can't find a big button labeled "OK" but she can find the power button, which isn't labeled and is built flush to the front of the printer?

Then, because she did that mid-batch of printing postcards, she has to REprint the entire batch.

It's like "Lather, Rinse, Repeat."
Because when she restarts, it will restick, and she will repeat the same mistakes.
And she did.
Three times.
That's three times after I reviewed the written instructions with her, reviewed WHICH button (Oh, the LABELED one?) is the "OK" button, and what she should NOT hit.

It'd be much less stressful to do it myself.
But I won't.
Because the first time I do it, it becomes MY job, not hers.
And I already have too many jobs.
So I'll just buy more Excedrin, hide the sharp objects, and try to come up with a standby, unflappable alibi ...
... for the next time she has to print these things again.

Like I said... some people should never touch computers.
Waldorf is a prime example of "some people."
She'd probably screw up the Etch-A-Sketch too.
no, really, she would.