Stories of unsurpassed brillianceThis "Week" The suggestion comes from Kroney who muses
"Whilst I was passing through Miami airport at the tender age of 21, I fancied a beer. "ID" said the charming Southerner behind the desk, so I got out my passport and showed it to her.
"You have to be 21," she said. Now this confused me slightly as I had been 21 for several months by this point and my date of birth was staring her in my face.
"I am 21," I replied helpfully "it says so there, look"
"You have to be 21", she said getting angry.
Cut a long story short, I argued, the manager came out, I argued with him before I finally realised that they weren't looking at the date of birth at all. They were looking at the date of *issue*
That would have made me an annoyingly precocious four year old. What examples of unsurpassed mental genius have you experienced?"""""""
(, Mon 21 Nov 2016, 9:24)
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Fuck, that's painful. Props for "a charming belief" though - I'm going to start using that.
Did some helldesk a few years ago before I made programmer. There was one guy in particular, who was just a bit... other in his fault descriptions. Called up one day claiming he'd "lost his wysiwyg".
Turns out he'd hidden the page header/footer while flailing around with his mouse like a pig in a war. No idea how he'd arrived at that description though, maybe he heard the abbreviation from BBC Click or something.
(, Fri 2 Dec 2016, 0:16, Reply)
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