Ohhhhhh, I'VE GOT LOADS
Every day for 6 fucking years in my job I get this...

But by no way catergorise this as Oldies vs Computers; I get middle-aged peeps claiming to be MS Support Technicians asking me what an IP address is. I've spoken a 93 year old woman through a driver reg hack in 5 minutes for fuck's sake. I walked some poor old cow through reinstalling Windows 98 until 4 in the morning over the phone; got it all working too and connected onto the net.

There again, some of them do come out with so much crap. One granny said she was happy to get her monitor working again, even though the side panel had melted and she could see the wires glowing behind them. Screams of "TURN IT OFF!!!!!" followed very quickly.
One of the funniest ones I've had was one of the first ones I ever took, which involved me being shouted at by an arsey OAP getting probs with his dialup connection. I manage to calm him down, and as we're finally getting somewhere he drops the phone and screams,
"OH FUCK, MY SAUSAGES ARE BURNING!!!!!"
Me and me manager pissing ourselves laffing as this guys kitchen is burning down, plus we'd tied the phoneline open due to laffing.

Last week I had to spell "www" to someone.

I've had people clicking the monitor when I've asked them to double-click stuff.

I've had others typing in full phonetics ie "P for Papa please" becomes p4papa on their screens.

They're all assholes, not just the elderly. especially the pingers ie gamers who nag about getting 10 more ping from a game server; ffs get laid.

PS On a plus note, I made Do it Woman! while speaking to these; they drove me to it.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 20:02, Reply)