The postman hits! You have new mail.

[serinde]

So, we've been advised to declutter toot-sweet posthaste NOW NOW to get the house on the market before the summer slump. In the course of chucking things out of the front closet (so to pack winter items), I found a leather satchel with, wait for it, an IBM Thinkpad.

?!

Booting it up, it claims to be the property of a company; the admin password is nothing easily guessable, so I can't make any further notions of who it belongs to. But it's been in that closet a good while. Whose is it? Bueller? Anyone?

(Claimants must correctly identify the child's amusement item also in the satchel to have it surrendered to their care.)

Comments

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

Another way to think about this: Who do you know who is most likely to leave a laptop at your house and not even notice they'd done so?

Or: Who do you know who has charge of the most 'puters?

Dunno if that helps narrow anything down, but asking the questions amused me.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

More like "who'd have a thinkpad and a small child"? That narrowed it down pretty far, too. My sister? Kasia? Or could someone just have been babysitting, and not be a parent at all?

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

I don't think B ever left a laptop at your house...

[shechameleon.livejournal.com]

I would suggest Mom, but she would definitely notice if she were missing her laptop.

I've never had custody of a laptop made by Big Blue, so it couldn't have been me. Or even J, for that matter.