“I found this really wonderful laptop case,” she said, quickly delving into a whole essay on beautiful and wonderful.

“Great,” was the only word we managed to slip into the entire stream of one-sided conversation.

“So,” finally she said, “I was thinking,” which could only mean disaster, “I should go buy a laptop to go into it…”

And midway a whole travel-catalogue worth of plans to visit the ‘computer place’ we knew that it would be easy. There’s supposed to be a standard governing the perfect symbiosis between laptops and their bags.