Prankster Me, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on (Twitter/X)

Walking down the main hall
Of my local 1985 mall
Looking for something to do
To have a little ball

I noticed a familiar Radio Shack
To look for a computer to hack
Over my shoulder I did look back
To insure the employees didn’t see my attack

I noticed this display model computer
Windows in it’s infancy days
Easy to use the DOS commands
In such immature mischievous ways

I clicked on the icon to get to the screen
Monochromatic c prompt now seen
“Format C:” I did so quickly typing
Snuck out the store silently escaping

10 minutes later I passed by again
Looked in the Shack to see goings on
Manager and employee with angry face
For of that hard drive I did so erase

To reinstall all that software
Back then, at a snail’s pace
I bet they’d have wanted to
Punch me in my face.
(end)

Not that I am proud of it. But I really did once sneak into a Radio Shack, back before Windows was easy to manipulate with DOS commands. I went to the “C:” which is basically the hard drive’s name. And when you type in
“Format C:” It erases everything on the hard drive, and reformats the hard drive. You can think of it like when a teacher writes a bunch of stuff on the whiteboard or chalkboard and you take an eraser and wipe everything off it.

But back then it took forever to reinstall software so it took them I am sure a couple of hours if not more to get it back to where it was before I did that. I wouldn’t do anything like that again.