Stupid Tech Support

March 12, 2007

I was at an ad agency a while back and there was a big project deadline looming. The folks who were printing this particular ad were about 150 miles away and had to get all of the files that the agency had put together in a hurry. We found out the hard way, after trial and error, that the print house didn’t have any Internet access at all, so we couldn’t email the data. So I suggested that we meet half way, and I’d give them the files on a zip disk. I asked the woman on the phone if she had a zip. She replied with a five digit number.

Stupid Tech Support

Stupid Family Members

January 23, 2007

My cousin and her boyfriend recently moved in together. The whole family

pitched in to help. My parents donated old furniture. My uncle lent them

his old car. Eventually their new home was all set up and the couple

decided to add a puppy to their family.

But they found the dog wouldn’t stay in the yard and that a fence was

needed. So again everyone pitched in. Friends came from far and wide for a

fence-building-party. And in no time they had a fence running around the

backyard up to the back of the house.

It wasn’t until my uncle dropped by to inspect the work that he noticed a

problem. Not only did the new fence fully enclose the puppy in the backyard

but it also surrounded… the car he’d lent them! They ended up having to

take down and rebuild a section of fence to get the car out again.

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Stupid Criminals

December 22, 2006

PARIS – What’s a television without its remote control? Not much, decided a thief in southwestern France who returned to the home from which he had just stolen a TV to pick up the remote control — and was arrested.

The man robbed a retiree’s house in the village of Mussidan, taking the TV set and some hunting rifles, police said. While the owner was reporting the theft at the local police station, the thief returned.

Alert neighbors tipped off the police and they caught the man red-handed.

“He came back to take the remote control,” a local police spokesman said. “I guess there’s daring and there’s stupid.”

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Stupid Customers

December 12, 2006

I worked as a technician for a company that sold computers. One time a woman was having trouble turning on her computer. I stopped by her house and quickly discovered the problem. She had gotten into the habit of turning the computer on by first pressing the power switch on the computer, then the power switch on the monitor. But somehow, they had gotten out of sync, so when the computer was on, the monitor was off, or vice versa. So no matter how many times she flipped both switches, the computer just wouldn’t seem to work.

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