Five Minutes Freewrite: A New Feature

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Kedral quickly did her chores and rushed to the sitting roomsto watch the latest and in fact the final debate by the presidential candidates. Everyone expects that final debate to be d the decider of the polls. She waited patiently for the host too user in the three gladiators. Then ethe unexpected happened.

kedral had forgotten that her mobile television subscribers had applied an update which requires every subscriber to reboot their decoder for at least an hour to synchronize the latest update their decoders.

The last presidential debate was about the start. It was also billed to last for an hour. Then the unexpected happened. The new feature pushed down by the mobile television company decided to act by turning off the decoder and rebooting it automatically, kedral having turned it on for barely five minutes.

Kedral was speechless. She couldn't do anything other to watch and pray for the update to be completed in few minutes. But that was not to be. It ran for approximately an hour and by the time it was through the presidential debate was well over. Kedral missed it.

She will watch the repeat of same, she consoled herself. But will there be time for that, considering her tight schedule? Kedral simply sighed and flipped to a news channel to conceal her disappointment.