Dear Celestia, that was close. · 3:13am Jan 9th, 2012
Ohmygoodness. That almost ended badly.
So, I was working on the latest chapter of my story when I remembered I STILL hadn't written those all-important thank-you-notes to my relatives for Christmas presents. So, I put my characters aside, pulled up a Word document, and tapped out a letter to each of them. I printed them all to the only reliable printer in the house, the one in my father's basement office. That done, I put all else aside and got back to my FanFiction.
About an hour later, I was done. I submitted the chapter online, and it should be up by now. However, something terrifying happened when I went to save it in a Word document.
Can you see where this is going?
I gasped at my screen when I realized my fatal mistake- I had hit the print button instead of the save one! Curse you, Microsoft, and your closely located buttons!
The race was on. I had to get down to the office and grab it from the printer before my mildly homophobic father found it. God only knows what he would have thought, knowing his only daughter wrote romantic stories about... homosexual ponies! GASP!
I tore down two flights of stairs, nearly falling ass-over-teakettle on my floppy, fluffy, purple slippers (purple slippers FTW) and ran into his office. He was sitting at his desk, listening to music, nowhere near the printer.
*WHEW*.
I hit the CANCEL button and grabbed the two already-printed pages out of the paper catcher.
"Trying to beat the printer?" my father asked, raising an eyebrow at my rushed entrance.
I smiled, casually as possible. "I hit Print instead of Save. Wouldn't want to, you know, waste your ink or anything!"
Shuffling to the door, clandestine tome in hand, I called out one last question. "Documents aren't saved to your printer, are they?"
"No, because when the computer sends the signal through the-"
I tore back up the stairs, replying, "Thanks! Awesome. I'll see ya later!"
I'll bet he didn't suspect a thing.
HAH! Lots of fun
Thanks for the track, by the way