OT: People and their Computers! Too funny!!!

My dd just sent the following to me I have to share the laughs with you. [img]smile.gif[/img]


This ought to make you feel better about your computer skills! Unbelievable, but supposedly
all true!!!!
!

Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?

Female customer: A white one...
!!

Customer: Hi, this is Maureen. I can't get my diskette out.
Tech support: Have you tried pushing the Button?
Customer: Yes, sure, it's really stuck.
Tech support: That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note.
Customer: No , wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet... it's still
on my desk... sorry....
!

Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the
screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?
!

Tech support: Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer: Hello... I can't print.
Tech support: Would you click on "start" for me and...
Customer: Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill
Gates.
!


Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time
I try, it says 'Can't find printer'. I've even lifted the printer and
placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't
find it...
!


Customer: I have problems printing in red...
Tech support: Do you have a color printer?
Customer: Aaaah....................thank you.
!


Tech support: What's on your monitor now, ma'am?
Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me at Woolies.
!


Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.!
Tech support: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?
Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.
Tech support: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.
Customer:! OK
Tech support: Did the keyboard come with you?
Customer: Yes
Tech support: That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there
another keyboard?
Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work...


Tech support: Your password is the small letter "a" as in apple, a
capital letter V as n Victor, the number 7.
Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters ?


Customer: I can't get on the Internet.
Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five stars.


Tech support: What anti-virus program do you use?!
Customer: Netscape.
Tech support: That's not an anti-virus program.
Customer: Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.!


Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screen saver on
my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.


Tech support: How may I help you?
Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I get
the circle around it?


A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her
printer.
!
Tech support: Are you running it under windows?
Customer: "No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point.
The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his
printer is working fine."
!

And last but not least...

Tech support: "Okay Colin, let's press the control and escape keys at
the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen.
Now type the letter "P" to bring up the Program Manager."
Customer: I don't have a P.
Tech support: On your keyboard, Colin.
Customer: What do you mean?
Tech support: "P".....on your keyboard, Colin.
!
Customer: I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT!!
!

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ September 05, 2006 02:30 PM: Message edited by: MaryCarly ]</font>

Cute! I can say that my husband who works on computers as favors for friends and family, has heard some strange computer questions.
---------And some of them have come from me! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] lol

LOL that was cute. It sounds like the stories my fiance hears from the tech support guys at his work.

Cute! I just wish they hadn't made a point to make all of the names and genders mentioned female... there was only one male in the bunch. Why does it make a point to say that the majority of the computer idiots are female? I'm better at using the computers than any of my past boyfriends. I think with something that gets passed around like this, it becomes a "joke" against women and passes into the public consciousness.

I don't want to be a killjoy - I do think it's funny the ridiculous problems people have. I worked in a computer lab as a teaching assistant, so I know how ridiculous people can get when they are forced to work with computers! But I also know it happens to men and women equally, so it's wrong to make it sound like only women are technically inept. Maybe if you send this on you can change half the names to male names or something [img]smile.gif[/img] .

Thanks, Mary! I had a good laugh at those! DH will love reading these later tonight. I have to admit that one of them sounded a little TOO familiar. A couple of years ago, DH bought a wireless mouse and left the old one on the computer desk. One day I called DH at work because I couldn't get the mouse to work! He said, "Are you sure you are using the new one?" I felt really silly and put away the old mouse for good! LOL.

LOL--I needed a laugh. Thanks, MaryCarly! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Hahahaha!!That makes me feel better a whole lot.