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[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Me: Can you unplug the USB and ADSL lines there?
Her: You're going to have to tell me.
Me: …Unplug the USB and the ADSL line..
Her: Which ones are they?
Me: The ones marked USB and ADSL
Her: You have to be more specific..
Me: They have written above them USB and ADSL
Her: Nope nope…nope.. Oh, USB?
Me: Yeah.
Her:And what was the other one?
Me: ADSL
Her: ADSL?
Me: ADSL
Her: The ADSL cord?
Me: Yes.
Her: Ok.
Me: Ok, now grab a paperclip or something long and thin.
Her:I don't have anything.
Me: .. Well you're going to have to find something madam. We need it to reset the modem.
Her: But I don't have anything!


What does she expect me to do about that? "Oh well, sorry, guess we'll replace your modem"

DAMN THESE PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN WANT TO TRY!!

Comments

[invader-kitty.livejournal.com]

My favourite is something like this:

Me: Unplug all the cables from the back of the modem.
Them: All of them?
Me: Yes please.
Them: Even the power?
Me: Yes please.
Them: And usb?

...you can see where this is going.

[nirvanaqween.livejournal.com]

Thats when you get her off your phone, and tell her to "call back when you find something" and boy do they move fast when they know they have to start over with someone else.

[chaoslore.livejournal.com]

I've always been fond of telling customers to unplug the ethernet cable from the back of their computer and having the line disconnect because they unplugged the phone cord from the wall...

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

..Or the ones that don't know which plugin is which, so they shut off the whole powerbar... The one that their cordless phone is plugged into...

I love when that happens. Anyone that makes that mistake, I'm glad I don't have to talk through.