A few years ago, a woman called to complain that she bought a computer, and after only a couple months, Windows didn’t run anymore. She further explained that her son had installed a game on the computer and that that was the only thing the computer would run.
I went to her home and found that the son had created a boot diskette for the game and never popped it out of the drive.
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.
Customer: “You’ve got to fix my computer. I urgently need to print a document, but the computer won’t boot properly.”
Tech Support: “What does it say?”
Customer: “Something about an error and non-system disk.”
Tech Support: “Look at your machine. Is there a floppy inside?”
Customer: “No, but there’s a sticker saying there’s an Intel inside.”
BERLIN – A 21-year-old German woman who did not feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped.
Police in the Bavarian town of Straubing said Wednesday they had launched a massive search throughout the region for the woman who disappeared on December 23 but turned up unscathed the following morning, saying the kidnapper had set her free.
A spokesman said the woman was questioned over the Christmas holiday and admitted she made up the story because she owed a colleague 25 euros ($32.9) and did not have the money to pay her debt. She now faces a fine of up to 1,000 euros.