Letter to President-elect Obama

Dear President-elect Obama,
Recently, I have had the misfortune of sending the wrong document attachment via e-mail to an editor I was writing for. Now, certainly this must happen to many a people pressing the wrong button in haste – Browse…click on document...Attach…Send. Then, sometime later, the document you clicked on flashes in your mind. It wasn’t the right document. I’m sure you’ve been there.
Well, this time Mr. President-elect, I do not believe I was the one at fault. I will admit, yes, yes, I was in a hurry. I had a train to catch; I was finished with the article and was excited to send it to the editor. As I was shutting off my laptop, I had to close out of all the Word documents. That’s when it hit me – I’d sent my notes and not the article. But the article wasn’t open. I had hit save; I hit the save button multiple times and saw the green bar on the bottom of the window show the saving progress...complete, saved, protect. I thought I was playing it safe, wasn’t going to have anything to worry about. Why then couldn’t I find the document? The question became, what folder did it save in? Documents, the logical choice. No, wrong. Not there. Desktop. Another fine choice. Out of all the lone files, the article was not there. Search the entire computer and C drive, you say. Did it. Nothing. The file was nowhere to be found.
I didn’t have time to sit for hours at my laptop searching through all the folders, files, documents, texts, and hidden folders. As I mentioned, I had a train to catch. But now, two days later, I’m back. And yeah, you could say I’m still up shit creek without a paddle. I’m no Windows expert, and I’m new to this Vista operating system, but I know that a document, once saved, should not disappear.
I’m guessing your campaign received a hefty financial boosts from Bill Gates. I’m not asking you to pass any of that money my way. Don’t be ridiculous, Mr. Obama. I’m asking, though, that since he has supported you, in turn, you support him. No, I don’t mean give him the money back from the U.S. Treasury. Have him take another looksie at Windows Vista. Have him look at what happens when documents don’t save anywhere. They save and then, poof, they’re gone. Maybe they are buried deep in the computer’s Mordor, but shit, average people like you and me, Mr. President-elect, we sure as hell won’t be able to find them there.
As a technological creator, innovator and computer king, Bill Gates is an ambassador of America everywhere in the world. I hate to tell this to you, but here in Poland, even apart from my personal mishap, this Vista deal has not gone over well. You’ll have representatives attending the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They will be handed a cd presentation on climate change and state forests in Poland. Watch it. Pay attention to the movies. Yeah, we all love to watch movies. Now, I’ll let you in on a little secret. To get those movies to play on Vista, it took some time, a long time, and it took just about an entire forestry department’s patience. Why, Vista just didn’t want to cooperate, didn’t want to show movies. Something, that to work on older Windows operating systems and on Apple computers was a breeze, was like fighting a flippin’ tsunami with Vista. If it wasn’t for sheer will power on the Polish forestry department’s part, you and other world leaders would not be too educated about climate change.
Please, talk to Bill.
In all sincerity,
A concerned citizen