Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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Very nearly on topicOn Tuesday evening, on my way home from work (2nd day back after hols) I was half asleep but noticed the car was almost out of fuel. Dutifully went to Tesco and filled up for the 30 mile journey home.
I think you know what's coming. Filled the tank with £40 worth of bleedin' un-leaded instead of bleedin' diesel. I'd got over ten miles down the road before I realised why the engine was spluttering.
I left the office at 5pm and finally got home at 10.50pm having waited an hour for the AA, been towed back to York, missed last bus home, got train, change at bleedin' Doncaster with 40 wait etc. etc.
If you haven't been patronised recently and miss it, try facing a garage load of mechanics after doing a darn-fool thing like that. It's not the £150 for emptying the tank that hurts as much as knowing a tank full of fuel has been poured down the drain and I need to fill up AGAIN.
Grrrr
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 17:17, Reply)
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