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[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Woman: I need cables.
Me: What kind?
Woman: The ones that plug to the back of my kareoke machine. (RCA)
Me: (Shows her a 6ft cord.)
Woman: Yes, like those! But three...
Me: Uh... they are 'three', mam.
Woman: No, see those (ends)? They are six, I need three. My kareoke machine only has three.
Me: Then where would they go?
Woman: Where would what go?
Me: The other ends of the cables...
Woman: Look, I only need three! Now are you going to help me or not?
Me: Mam, no. What you are descibing defies the laws of quantum physics.

She left, bewildered and pissed off.

Another guy asked me what a cable splitter 'does'.

Oh why did i have to be polite to this guy? I explained it for him, and even drew "Y" diagrams, for an HOUR!

He still didn't get it.

Comments

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

How can these people walk and breath?

[wibbble]

They have to stop, then hold their breath while they move on.

[hangar.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the time a friend, who was contemplating buying webhosting, asked me what bandwidth was. Siiigh.

[manuka.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm baffled, what does "three" and "six" refer to?

[mawz.livejournal.com]

RCA cables have 3 connectors (Composite video, L & R audio channels) per end. Starfish in question is so dumb that she thought there should only be 3 connectors total (despite this being a logical impossibility for a set of straight cables, and her devices having 3 connectors each).

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

I kept asking her what she was trying to connect to BESIDES the kareoke box, but every time I did, she was baffled by the question and kept studdering "Um, i just need it for the kareoke box... nothing else"

So I guess she just found some coloured knobs on the back of the box and decided that THOSE NEED CABLES!!!

Though I LOVE it when the blondes come in asking for cables, and I end up selling them $129.99 cables.

[manuka.livejournal.com]

Indeed, because those are where the store makes all its money, and there's usually a fat commission attached to those - that's how it worked when I was a monkey at the place where "service was state of the art" (and what a farking joke THAT was)

[manuka.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. It wasn't clear from the OP that connectors were what we were talking about. That makes more sense.

[margaretc.livejournal.com]

Say you have an AV gadget that you want to connect to another AV gadget. They'll have 3 RCA receptors each, one yellow, one red, and one white (on an audio-only gadget, you'd have 2, one red & 1 yellow). You get a wire to plug the one in to the other. It's 6 feet long with interesting-looking ends. Each end is split in 3 with a little join-thinggy about 3 inches down the cable, then you have a 3-part single cable running most of the rest of the 6 feet, then another little joint thinggy and then the other 3 ends. She wanted a cable with only one end. I guess the other end just dissolved or something.

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

On an audio only, you'd have red and white (or red and black in some cases) not red and yellow :) Yellow is the video.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

...unless you have some old, old Monster cables like I do... Audio is white and yellow (with yellow identified as Left) and Red is the larger video line.

I never did figure out how that got through QC.