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Thread ID: 16711	2002-03-15 13:39:00	Jokes 4 u	Guest (0)	Press F1

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39322	2002-03-15 13:39:00	I went on-site to a customer's location to replace a bad floppy drive. Upon arriving onsite and questioning the user, I was told the floppy disks were ' vanishing'. The pc happened to be an older Epson Equity, where there was a small space between the case and the lower part of the floppy drive. I proposed the idea that maybe the user had missed the drive slot and dropped the floppies into this slot and was immediately chastised for making such a suggestion, as 'I have been using this computer for a couple of years and I should know where to put the diskettes'. I then said I'll open the case and if there are no diskettes inside the case, the call is free. I opened the case and there were 4 floppies inside, all labeled as her data disks. She had no other words for me other than 'oops'. Working as a student tutor in the computer lab at our local community college I had a student hold up his hand. I walked up behind him and he looked up at me with this bewildered look on his face. Asking if I could be of assistance he replied, 'I can't find the any key.' The message on the screen was 'Press any key to continue.' Being a tutor you have to handle this question without laughing and making the student feel foolish. This seemed to be a regular question at the beginning of each semester. My friend was on duty in the main lab on a quiet afternoon. He noticed a young woman sitting in front of one of the workstations with her arms crossed across her chest, staring at the screen. After about 15 minutes he noticed that she was still in the same position, only now she was impatiently tapping her foot. He asked if she needed help and she replied, 'It's about time! I pressed the F1 button over twenty minutes ago!' Email from a friend 'CanYouFixTheSpaceBarOnMyKeyboard?' For a computer programming class, I sat directly across from someone, and our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into the class, she got up to leave the room. I reached between our computers and switched the inputs for the keyboards. She came back and started typing and immediately got a distressed look on her face. She called the tutor over and explained that no matter what she typed, nothing would happen. The tutor tried everything. By this time I was hiding behind my monitor and quaking red-faced. I typed, 'Leave me alone!' They both jumped back as this appeared on their screen. 'What the...' the tutor said. I typed, 'I said leave me alone!' The kid got real upset. 'I didn't do anything to it, I swear!' It was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. The conversation between them and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes. Me 'Don't touch me!' Her 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit your keys that hard.' Me 'Who do you think you are anyway?!' Etc. Finally, I couldn't contain myself any longer, and fell out of my chair laughing. After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red. Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class. A woman called the with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was 'running it under Windows.' The woman responded, 'No, my desk is next to the door. But that's a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his is working fine.' Computer color went Intermittant. I went into an old age home one morning and after turning the monitor on it's side and resoldering a joint or two, finished up and presented my bill. This sweet lady ask me what I had found wrong at which time not wanting to burden her with an explaination she would not understand I simply told her that I had turned the set on it's side and poured in about a pint of color since the set had been running low. About 3 years later my boss got the strangest call , it was the same little lady asking for me by name and she stated that I needed to bring my bottles of color it had ran out again.	Guest (0)
39323	2002-03-15 14:29:00	perhaps a new motto for this site?: 'My friend was on duty in the main lab on a quiet afternoon. He noticed a young woman sitting in front of one of the workstations with her arms crossed across her chest, staring at the screen. After about 15 minutes he noticed that she was still in the same position, only now she was impatiently tapping her foot. He asked if she needed help and she replied, 'It's about time! I pressed the F1 button over twenty minutes ago!''	Guest (0)
39324	2002-03-16 16:07:00	hey guys, don't mean to offend you, but i read these exact same jokes on the net like 4 years ago & yet you've made out that these happened to you. Be honest guys for gods sakes.	Guest (0)
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