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[fuego.livejournal.com]

(Keep in mind that this woman purchased the blasted thing almost 4 years ago and claims to use it every day.)

Fuego: "Okay, I'd like you to restart your computer."

User: "I can't do that. It's already turned on

Fuego thinks: "Yes, that is the standard condition under which one RESTARTS the unit"

Fuego says (in a voice that is trying to sound non-sarcastic and non-patronizing): "Well, yes I realize this. Restarting is shutting the computer down and turning it back on."

User: "Oh, okay. Just a second I need to save something....okay, there."
(about 30 seconds pass)

Fuego: "Just let me know when it finishes restarting."

User: "Restarting? It never shut down."

Fuego: "Is it still in the process of shutting down?"

User: "No, I never turned it off to begin with."

Fuego: "I see, okay in order to get this working, I am going to need you to restart. Do you-"

User cuts in: "Uh, er..*unintelligible mumbling*..but what do you want me to do?

Fuego: "Go to the apple menu and select restart."

It was a damned lucky thing that all we needed to do was reboot once.

Comments

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

*blinks*
*blinks*

Woah. I so don't miss that.

[amplifiedmouse.livejournal.com]

Wow, I think that may be the dumbest person alive.

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

Nope. Dumbest would be the guy I dealt with today who had to go and ask his girlfriend what street they live on.

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

LOL....

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

ROFL...my husband used to that all the time, when we lived in an apartment. That, and the phone number. He never could remember it! Both me and whoever was asking for it would look at him like "ooooo-kay then."