During our high school homecoming week, each class has to make a Homecoming poster to be displayed in a business window downtown. A girl in our senior class asked us what our poster was going to be. We jokingly told her that we were going to pose as mannequins for the entire week in our designated window. To our surprise, she seriously responded with,”Wow! That will be really cool. But what are you going to do at night?”
As a computer monitor at a university, students typically have fairly stupid questions, but rarely do the monitors though. Just this morning a monitor was unable to print to the color printer, which is not unusual considering the state our computer lab is in. However, the head monitor was asked to look into it. He was unable to determine the cause of the malfunctioning printer and waited on a full-time support person to come to the rescue. This person arrived and immediately lifted up the printer to discover the cable had been disconnected. Just goes to show you how even people who provide help need help.
In high school, a girl named Sonya asked the science teacher the following: “If you weigh 100 pounds, and then you lose 100 pounds, what happens?”
I work at a multi-branch distribution company and one of my co-workers’ daughters, 19 at the time, was brought in to help with some general office work, i.e. filing, sorting, faxing, etc. She had been there for a couple of days when she was asked to fax a one page document to one of our branch locations. She was told to simply put the document into the machine and press the “Branch 1” button and the machine would do the rest. When she didn’t return as soon as expected, another worker went to see if something was wrong. She located her in front of the fax machine looking perplexed. “What’s wrong?” she was asked. “Something is wrong with this machine. Each time when I put the paper in and send it, it just comes right back out. It won’t take it!”