While working in a small computer store one day I had a customer walk quickly into the store and right up to the counter.
Customer: “I want to buy a mainframe.”
Me: (playing along with the “joke”) “I think I have a couple of them out back.”
Customer: “Good. I need a mainframe because I want to learn how to program in COBOL. I’d prefer a Pentium mainframe, if you have one of those.”
I was working the help desk. One day one of the computer operators called me and asked if anything “bad” would happen if she dropped coins into the openings of her PC. I asked her if this was something she was thinking of doing. She said, “never mind” and hung up. So I got out my trusty tool kit and paid her a visit. I opened her CPU case and sure enough, there was 40 cents.
I worked with an individual who plugged their power strip back into itself and for the life of them could not understand why their computer would not turn on.