B3ta
I was ripped off by B3ta.

I'm a very long time lerker who whilst tempted to post, never quite got round to doing so. About 4/5 months ago (according to my profile anyway) the was a QOTW that i acturly had a couple of reasonable answers for... Hmm thought I. Why not.

The question?

It was the one to do with the older generation and computers.

I fix box's for one of the larger indipendants (mostly high end gaming box's with pain in the ass watercooling snizzle) and whilst i don't deal with the public face to face a couple of our lads do.

2 classics in my time there. The guy who bought some SIMM's from us of the 72 pin kind by mistake (his son had depatched him for some 30's) and upon reaching home and realising his error instead of bringing it back. He tried to force it in...

Which roughly translated to him getting out his hacksaw and vice and sawing it in half.

Needless to say it didn't post. I think it's the only time we've openly laughed in a customers face.

The second one involved another gent of older years who had bought a processor with a barebones unit. We'd gone out of our way to explain heatsinks and paste and the thermal conductive propertys of the liqued you spread on.

Taking this in his head the gent then went home and had the brainwave that as the end result that you wanted was to make heat conduct faster... What's better to use than corn oil from the deep fat frier...

He didn't acturly explain this when he came in. He just said it didn't work and one of the guys brought it out back for us to inspect. It was all slick and kept flying out of our hands as we tried to inspect it. I think that was warrenty void too.

Anyhow. I had more. I collected storys from around work for a few days after the question was posted. I then realised that even through i lurked, i didn't have an account. No matter thought I. I'll make one. It'll be a quick job. After all those years lurking i get to make a post...

Then. Disaster struck (cue music). It turns out all the newbs are only admited on a certain day. And having already passed that day in the week, i'd have to wait another 5 or 6 for my chance to come.

Much too late for QOTW.

So cheers B3ta. I'll never get to make that first post, and i'll never get a chance to use those stories on QOTW.

Bah.

Length - About a week. I already told you.
(Kaine, Mon 19 Feb 2007, 21:18, Reply)