My first post here

[goatavatar.livejournal.com]

Hey all, first post here ...



Had a tech from our store (computer repair shop) go out to repair a "stuck cd" in the drive.

he is unable to slide the drive out due to some obstruction, and so he has to take the drive out and take it apart to get the disk out.

this is what he sees.








in case you aren't familiar with what it is is.... here...



yep. its the black disk from the inside of a floppy.

when asked, she had never seen or used a floppy before and thought the outside of it was a protective packaging.

we have a feeling she was lying.




but that isnt what was preventing the drive from opening. it was the dried pieces of macaroni.

Comments

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

lol @ macaroni

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

No words.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

It was the dried pieces of macaroni.

Was she told it was incompatible, and to use PC-aroni next time?

[chaobell]

:O

I saw the opposite of that! I think my former employer still has the 5.25" floppy drive with the CD permanently wedged into it.

But yeah, the macaroni is the kicker.

[asbrand.livejournal.com]

Yes, people are that dumb. My first job in Atlanta was working for a company that processed insurance claims for dental work. Our software came on 3.5" disks.

Yes...we had a customer actually remove the outer shell and try to put them in his CD ROM.

Sadly, this guy was a Dentist. :-o

There's dumb...and then there's DUMB...!!!



-Az

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I never knew that they made optical drives with magnetic readers on them, and a pasta reader to boot.

[goatavatar.livejournal.com]

LMFAO

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Win-aroni?

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

I think that's the best first post on TS I've ever read ..

[knirirr.livejournal.com]

Incredible. I thought that that sort of thing stopped happening a decade ago.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaugh! AAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!


***golf clap*** for great frist pots!

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

Lose-aroni surely?

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

I once sat and watched somebody cut down a 5.25" floppy with a pair of scissors to get it to fit in a 3.5" drive. I was too horrified to speak.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

beloved once had to go on a tech call...found a cookie in the floppy drive. and a bunch of pennies that had worked their way down to the motherboard.

the 4 year old wandered in to watch (his horrified mama was already watching, confused/horrified)...and said "put the pennies in the shoom-shoom slot!!"

he had been watching mama and daddy at the puter....when beloved's boss found the cookie, mama asked "what IS that" beloved piped up with "shortbread, i do believe!"

he was sent to sit in the van, lest the boss actually laugh out loud in the customer's home....

[psychotwinkie.livejournal.com]

I wouldnt have been able to stop laughing. Stupidity causes me to laugh a lot.

[dusktodawn.livejournal.com]

I think this one actually topped the lizard we found and the computer built of dust :/

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

I figured kids. I have a DDS-3 tape drive with sliced cheese in it. Gota love two year olds.

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you took pictures; that was the best!

[crazdgamer.livejournal.com]

Then you've never read this. (http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1359014.html)

(Further reading: posts #2 (http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1361209.html) and #3 (http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1372091.html) by combat_taco.)

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

did they trim all four sides equally, or just two sides?

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

All 4, actually.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes. I remember that. Classic stuff, classic stuff.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

nniiiiicceeee

[methedras.livejournal.com]

Hahah best post I've seen in a while.

[manuka.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you could boot off pasta.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

Let's not forget peanut butter sandwiches. You'd be amazed what they can be shoved in.
I remember in a class children's developmental stages being discussed. There actually is a stage where children instinctively learn about spatial things by trying to shove objects in other objects, around age two.
Yes, there is an evolutionary reason why your two year old did that to your computer.
btw, Love the icon.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

It makes perfect sense if you also remember that you can download food to your microwave, if you remember that classic someone posted over on techcomedy.com

[jimpossible84.livejournal.com]

lol - Isn't that what Yankee Doodle called the feather stuck in his cap?

[jjjiii]

Rawhahahahaw.

[therealdrhyde.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen a floppy in at least a couple of years. I'd not be at all surprised to come across a newbie who had no idea what it was.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, but it makes great sense.

[cai1987.livejournal.com]

Yes, but to get one open requires some serious prying with a knife/screwdriver. You'd think she'd figure out after the first couple minutes of prying that the shell isn't supposed to come off.