Zoom or bust?

We senior zoomers have problems familiar to those who read the Rust.

My Spanish class normally on a Friday had been cancelled and is now only taking place online.

I decided against joining it as the class, the picturesque village where the adult learning centre is situated and leaving my home for a couple of hours are all attractions and sitting behind my computer at home is not.

An enterprising class member who is computer savvy suggested some eight weeks ago we have a quiz in Spanish on Zoom and four of us participate.

One of our class, an senior ex-nurse who once advised the government, winters in Lanzarote.

By the sound of it she will be summering there too as she is in marooned on the Canarian island.

Yesterday the lady who initiated and sends out Zoom invitations to the other three was quiz mistress.

I duly responded to the invitation for the prescribed time yesterday and waited … and waited .. .and waited. I realised my mistake.

I had flagged her invitation only for the Lanzarotean to compose and circulate to the group a short story based on the difficult Spanish words in the quiz sent in advance.

So the invitation now appeared in my inbox under her email name.

As soon as I realised, I activated the correct invitation and waited another 10 minutes.

The fourth member a Beehive enthusiast had attended to his bees and quite forgotten the quiz.

It was one in a series of cancellations and delays in a day that I had scheduled carefully and now had fallen apart.

When something goes wrong in my life at any level I ask myself two questions. How can I ensure it does not reoccur and is there any benefit?

The answer to the first is to delete out of date Zoom invitations and to the second, yes – my decision to void the course online was entirely correct.