My mate Steve used to work in an Argos Superstore
on the games/consoles counter. This was back in the early-mid 90s. One day a woman brought in a Sega Megadrive and said she was having trouble with it. She said the games would load up OK but the controllers weren't working.

"Fair enough said Steve, let's have a look. You might have just got a couple of faulty controllers in the box. We'll set it up and have a look. If it is just the pads then I'll just swap them for a couple of new ones."
So he unboxed the console and plugged it in, connected it to a TV and then plugged the controllers in.
"Is that where you connect them?" asked the woman.
"Yes, why? Where have you been trying to connect them?"
"I didn't know you had to plug them in, I just had the wire trailing across the floor pointing at the Megadrive."
"Ahh, problem solved" said Steve and boxed everything back up.
"Thank you" she said and left, happy.

Steve then had to flee into the warehouse in order to burst out laughing. He told me that it wasn't just the stupidity of it that amused him, but on top of that, the fact that she didn't seem embarrassed in any way at making such a silly error.
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