Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 15:25:00 05/05/99
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>I >have a technician friend who received a phone call from someone wanting to >access the Internet and asked what needed to be done. He gave the person a >toll-free phone number and told them to ask for their free kit and install it on >their computer. "Computer! You people are all the same! Always trying to sell >something we don't want!", and promptly hung up on my friend's face. > >> >> Nowadays when I >>tell someone to "drag and drop" a file from one folder to another, I sometimes >>get responses like "I don't see anything that says 'dragon drop' on my screen". I once called a help line to ask what I said was a "stupid" question. The technician replied that my question was not stupid. He said that the most frequent question he kept getting at his help line was: "Hey, Mister, the computer keeps saying PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE, but I can't the ANY key on my keyboard."
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