So I got a hand-me down.

We've determined that the user interface for these things is definitely aimed at her demographic and not mine. Hence this dialog yesterday morning.

We'd taken both of them on the recent trip, which turned out to be a good thing, in part because of our differing tastes in music, and in part because we ended up not sitting together on several legs of our trip.

The question arose of how to recharge the smaller device without synching it to whatever computer we plugged it into (it's synched to the desktop at the moment). So, after our return, when it was my turn, we plugged it into the desktop.

"So how do I tell when it's charged?" sez I.

"There's a little battery icon in the upper corner of the screen."

"I've seen that, yeah."

"If it's a lightning bolt, it's charging. If it's a plug, it's done."

Now I rarely wear my glasses before getting breakfast. This had led, a bit earlier in the morning, to my finding what looked like a blob of hair in the bathtub, but turned out to be a centipede, which I escorted out.

"Ah," sez I. "Is that a plug?"

"No, that's a lightning bolt."

"Maybe it's a centipede."

"No, it's a lightning bolt."

"K."

Well, I was amused.