Name Change - Vesna McMaster

‘Argh!’

‘What’s up now? Hey watch out, you’re hitting a whole lot of keys there, it’s confused now.’

‘I know the file is on there somewhere. I just can’t find it.’

‘You tried the Search function?’

She eyes him balefully. Then redirects her gaze to the screen.

‘I can’t remember what I saved the file as. Word won’t search like Acrobat, more’s the pity.’

‘So, if you knew what the name was, you’d be good?’

‘Of course.’

‘Hmm.’ He stares into the distance philosophically. ‘What other associated concepts did it have?

‘What?’

‘What else was the topic? Something else you could have included it under?’

I don’t know. Money. Finance., Commerce. Transactional records. Feminism. Coffee houses. Could be anything.’

There’s a short silence.

‘Kellogg’s is re-branding as Kellanova, you know.’

‘What?’

‘Don’t you think that’s quite a leap? I mean, they have, what, 100 years of brand recognition?’

She considers him as if weighing up the benefits of tipping him off his chair. He is oblivious.

‘Keywords. You know. Like, I’m Brian. But is Brian my keyword? Will you always find me by the name of Brian? Or perhaps I would turn up under other searches, like, Programmer, or Spouse, or Handsome…’ He smirks at this last and catches her glance, then rapidly loses the smirk. ‘I mean, sorry.’

‘Yes, Brian. I do tend to find you by the keyword Brian.’