MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Prontaprint, mate ...Another phone story from a while back:
A few months after the previous story, a fairly bemused looking chap waltzes in, gives me a cheery smile and whips out his new Nokia camera phone, as sold to him the very same morning by my colleague, who chose that very moment to "have a tidy up in the stockroom".
"Nice phone innit?", he asks.
"Yes, very," I say, "so what can I do for you?"
"Well," he replies, "I've got the hang of most of the stuff ..." He then proceeds to demonstrate various features to me, such as the phonebook, radio, etc "... but there's just one thing I can't work out."
"What's that?" I ask him.
"This is a camera phone, right?"
"Yes ...", I say.
"... so where does the film go?"
It's all I can do at this point not to burst out laughing.
"There IS no film, it's a digital camera", i tell him.
"Oh," he says. "What does that mean?"
So I explain to him the difference between a digital camera and one that uses film.
"Riiiight ..." he says, seeming to grasp the concept now. "... so where do I get it developed?"
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