If I get this one more time, I'm going to hurt someone

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

So we had a level 2 snow emergency this morning. Had it been level 3, I wouldn't be here today. The following has nothing to do with the following call, except that I wouldn't have had to take it and a hundred like it.

Redneck: I'm getting the error "Invalid username or password."
Me: (checks login attempts, doesn't see any)
Me: Okay, our servers aren't even registering your login attempts. For your username, you should have typed in billybob@myisp.net. Is that what you have?
R: Yes.
(Yeah, right.)
Me: Can you bring up your dialup box for me please?
Me: (hears computer being turned on)
R: ... okay, it's up.
Me: Great. Now tell me exactly what you have typed there.
R: billybob.
Me: ... OK. You just need to add @myisp.net.
R: Oh, okay. (types it in)

Comments

[saintrigger.livejournal.com]

What constitutes a level 2 snow emergency?

In my neck fo the woods it's not usual to measure snowfall in feet. "In tonights forcast, the south towns are expecting a foot of snowfall" which translates into people grumbling and pulling out their snowbrushes.

Of course, we don't have tornados, mudslides, earthquakes, fires, flashfloods or other wraths of god here. (although there was a small eartuquake a few years ago that shattered a few windows. T-shirts were made. ;) )

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite clear on that, actually. Level 2 means the weather sucks, but no so much that it's illegal to drive without a damn good reason.