Helo?

BOY MEETS GIRL
So this was going to be a quote of the day but I thought it deserved more attention. We have this friend named Mario Redhead who's 15, a local kid in our branch. He comes over to visit, play with the kids, do his homework, and play around on the computer.

You know how young kids are supposed to have some sort of natural afinity to all things technological? This skipped over Mario. He told me that my husband had helped him create his own website and I thought wow, didn't know Iz could do that. And it only took 10 minutes. Then I discovered he meant he now has a hotmail account. And each time he comes over and wants to check it, he needs help getting to the website to sign in. He repeatedly tries to enter his email account into the address bar. Silly boy.

So this last time he came over to get help with his art homework: what is a pattern, how can you create patterns, choose a pattern to make wrapping paper. Wacky homework. Afterwards he went to check his email. Apparently there's a girl he's sweet on and he wanted to email her to get the romance going.

How does a teenage boy get the attention of a pretty girl? Flowers? A poem? Or, heck, even a phone call? For Mario it's an email to say, "helo." No how ya doing, do you want to hang out or anything like that. Just "helo." And he didn't want to leave his name. Apparently he wants to woo her by sending a creepy, misspelled, one-word message anonymously. Though how he hopes to stay anonymous when his email address is marioredhead is anybody's guess.