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[krrayn.livejournal.com]

delighted to find this community. I share with you one of my more interesting moments.

Background: I support a database application to customers, so unlike supporting home ISP users for example, it's expected that the people I deal with have some working knowledge of computer basics. An expectation that is overturned in some surprising ways.

I got an email from a user in Japan reporting a problem with the software. There was a bit of a language barrier, so I asked him to send me a screen capture of the error.

The attachment I got was indeed a screen capture. Someone had taken a photograph of the monitor screen and either scanned it, or transfered from a digital camera.


The joke was on me, though, the text of the error message was in Japanese.

Comments

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha that is hilarious. I love the punchline ;)

[krrayn.livejournal.com]

is it really a punchline if it really happened? For me it was more like a 'forehead-slap-line'...

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a punchline in that it would make you want to punch something. I don't think forehead-slap-line is a word anyway hehehe

[krrayn.livejournal.com]

Neither is "Ford Forcus" but that's what I say whenever I see those ugly little cars on the road.

I know what you mean about wanting to punch something though. You should see the number of holes in my cubicle panel from stabbing it with pens...