Let's Microwave Berlin: mock your PC repair customers in here.

bitboy

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So I'm not really a fan of repairing PCs. In fact it's something I try my best to avoid. However, occasionally I'm presented with a 'friend of the family' (damn I hate that phrase) whose PC I feel obliged to look at.

One such customer has the uncanny ability to mix up computer terminology with white good electrical products and capital citys. Despite my many years dealing with these wonderful computers, I'm never quite prepared for the call asking....

"How do I install the Berlin in my Microwave?"

Obviously I get visions of a monster of a man trying to invade Berlin via the awesome power of electromagnetic waves:

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So I wonder round to his house,with extreme caution, to scope on the scenario. It's not until I turn on my Star Trek style universal translator (for all known languages, including Welsh) that I find out this once powerful figure is nothing but a computer 'n00b', for want of a better word.

The capital city he once wanted to invade is nothing more than a Belkin 802.11g wireless adapter, and his mass destruction device of choice is Microsoft Windows, not a microwave. I breathe a sigh of relief and sort out his problem, and return feeling the world is just that little bit safer.

So I'm not one for mocking the less computer literate, god knows I'm a buffoon when it comes to many topics. I just felt this one was too classic not to share.

Do your best / worst, and share your stories here.
 
Hehe had a feeling it was going to be Belkin - didn't see the Microsoft coming though :)

I had someone asked where to get Abode from. I told them www.adobe.com ;)
 
Well I had a particularly dipsy young lady on my books. Exceptionally attractive and smelled nice but a bit blonde. She called up to say her new monitor had stopped working so I rushed round as you do when there's eye candy on offer. I fiddled around for a few seconds only to find she'd unplugged it and forgotten to plug it back in :D

Charged her £35, dumb bitch.
 
i remember on day back in the computer room in school, one of the computers "wasnt working" so the teacher got the technician up and he pressed the on button a few times turned the screen on and off moved the mouse touched the keyboard. nothing he could do would work...

yep it was unplugged.

also there was a netowrk lead missing from the desktop in a class at uni and my lecturer on microprocessors was trying to plug a vga lead for a laptop which goes to the projector into the back of the computer to try and get the network to work. lucky for him there is only 12 in my class

ok not customers, but still, both resulted in a good laugh at each teacher :)
 
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Quality post :D The picture is awesome.


I don't have any funny repair stories. I did once show an elderly lady that picking up the mouse and moving it in mid-air wasn't going to get her far. That's about it :(
 
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Quality post :D The picture is awesome.


I don't have any funny repair stories. I did once show an elderly lady that picking up the mouse and moving it in mid-air wasn't going to get her far. That's about it :(
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Same as my gran :) Amazing really, had to explain that the cursor on the screen was 'connected' to the mouse and get her to move it round the screen to the corners. When you grow up around computers even the n00biest stuff seems quite advanced to total non-users I suppose :)
 
me and my m8 had a incident recently, where this guy made out he knew everything there was to know about pcs.

we asked him if he had carried out a apiapt test to which he replyed yes.

little did he know that a apiapt is "a partridge in a pear tree"! lol
 
uncle had to do some health and safety for work and this involved using a computer. he is a joiner, in joinery there are no computers about for the worker on site, they nail nails and join woody objects together, computing is alien to these lads.

He has never used a computer before and on the day of test, he was caught trying to move the cursor on screen with his mouse IN THE AIR whilst saying, " THIS ISN'T WORKING "
 
Best laugh-enducing post of the day! be proud :p

Ahh the joys of the computer illiterate.. You have not laughed until you see someone with a new PC you have just installed lifting the mouse directly up off the desk to try and make the pointer go up..

//TrX
 
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