As a matter of fax
When at school I was a bit lazy when it came to work experience time and instead of applying for my own placement I let the school do it for me. As a result when my classmates had exciting placements like a week with the ferrari F1 team (which my best mate did) I was sent to the administration office for a distribution company with Michelle from my class.
One day I was sent to send a fax (this was back in the heady days when everything was done on paper) and found Michelle at the fax machine looking confused.
Being the helpful sort I am I offered to help her and demonstrated how to use this new fangled gadget.
"Look" said I "you put the document in the top here, type the number in here and press the green button here"
"Yeah I tried thet like 10 times, but it's not working" said she
After a short time of spectrum loading noises the fax went through.
"there you go,"said I "it's working now, job done"
At this point she lifted the document which was to be sent and said

"But it's still here"

She had sent the same document 10 times because she thought the original document was somehow dematerialised and transported down the phoneline to rematerialise on the other end.

Priceless
(Figmaus, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 8:56, 2 replies)

Oh.My.God.

( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 10:10, closed)

I once
accidently faxed my tie to our europe office, the machine slowly munched away whilst I was been steadily choked. Not my finest hour.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 11:07, closed)