Was cautious about posting this
since half of you seem to think the stories on this QOTW are (a) made up and (b) just shit. But anyway...

My mother bought herself an iPod recently. She knew better than to try to do anything with it without consulting me (she tends to panic around the point when she has to take something out of its packaging for the first time), so she called me. I talked her through getting everything connected and charging it up for the first time. All went well. I said it would probably need about four hours to charge completely the first time.

Six hours later, she rings back. "It's only charged about a third of it!" she complains.

Puzzled, I ask her if she's sure. "Yes!" she says.

Worrying she might have bought a dodgy model, I ask her to describe exactly what she can see on the battery indicator. "It's only dark green on the bottom third," she says.

"Mum, is it green all the way across, from left to right?" I ask.

"Yes."

"Then it's all right. Your battery is completely charged. You read it left to right, not top to bottom."

I put the phone down and had a good laugh telling this story to my cleaning lady, who then revealed she had made exactly the same mistake when she first got her iPod.

Hmm, yes, actually you're right, it is just shit.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 21:53, Reply)