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[M3wThr33]

well, his friend was plugging in a computer, but it still makes no sense

Most laptop power supplies support all international voltages.

 

[vegee]

Also, my ex somehow blamed me for breaking her computer. Something in her mind associated bad RAM with me installing Winamp. Like... it corrupted the memory. Yeah, she never let me near her computer after that.

I'm serious. She got a laptop eventually and would tell me not to touch it when she left the room. Every god damn time. She was afraid I'd change her home page in the browser or delete important shit. How do people live in fear like that, all the time?

Those were actually the last words I ever said to her. "You never trusted me on your computer."

Five years. I'm a computer programmer. That's how it ends. Corny as hell.

That's pretty sad. I can see how someone wouldn't want someone on their computer in fear of them going through their files, but to associate a hardware malfunction with something that you installed is pretty ignorant. Especially since it's Winamp.



When I was younger, my parents were pissed off at me because I signed up to MSN Messenger. They told me it was a pay-to-use program and that our internet bill was more expensive because of it. :| Nevermind the fact that I had been using instant messaging programs for years at this point. Nevermind that I was the one that always had to fix their stupid computers when they broke or when they had internet issues. But yes, mom and dad, you know more about this stuff than I do.

 

[0OoO0]

This topic has been posted as news on Kotaku :lol

http://kotaku.com/5121855/dumb-lady-physically-puts-credit-cards-in-wii

 

[Boulayman]

You made it to kotaku ^^

 

[kamorra]

You made it to kotaku ^^

Not difficult at all.

 

[Burai]

When I was younger, my parents were pissed off at me because I signed up to MSN Messenger. They told me it was a pay-to-use program and that our internet bill was more expensive because of it. :| Nevermind the fact that I had been using instant messaging programs for years at this point. Nevermind that I was the one that always had to fix their stupid computers when they broke or when they had internet issues. But yes, mom and dad, you know more about this stuff than I do.

Mom: "Oh noes, how is our internet bill so high?"
Dad: *Oh shit! The internet porn dialler! How the fuck do I get out of this?* "I'll check the computer!"
Mom: "And?"
Dad: "It's this MSN thing vegee is using! It must be!"
Mom: "Well, he can remove it right now! And he's grounded!"
Dad: "Excellent."

 

[666]

This topic has been posted as news on Kotaku :lol

http://kotaku.com/5121855/dumb-lady-physically-puts-credit-cards-in-wii

News, eh. I guess it IS new years day.

 

[HUELEN10]

Not difficult at all.

Sadly not. It is nice whenit is news that appears, like Wii Cleaning Kits out in the USA, but this in't news. Not that I'm complaining.

 

[Bren McGuire]

Not game related, but:

One time me and my brother were helping fix someone's computer at his home office. At one point my brother told me to see if I could find a screwdriver, so I went over to the guy's daughters who happened to be nearby and asked them if they had a screwdriver somewhere in the house.

Them (totally seriously): What's a screwdriver?

I had no idea how to respond for a good while because I didn't think it was possible for people who were around 14-16 years old to have lived that long without knowing what a screwdriver was.

Not everyone likes Vodka Orange.

 

[Eric2929]

Year's ago when I worked at a game shop we had a kid bring in a PSP and a bunch his UMD's.
We open up his PSP to find a UMD disc in the drive. No not the UMD disc inside of the little plastic housing, he actually ripped the disc out of the housing. The disc was badly scratched in the extraction process, and obviously the disc never read.
On top of that he had five more little UMD games ripped out of their housing to go along with it. When we told the poor kid's mom why we couldn't take the system and what her special child has done, she looked pretty pissed.

OP wins though, hands down, the end. I hope she tells a coworker or a friend the story so they can laugh at her ineptness with technology too!

The first time I opened up a PSP game I tried to take the disc out of the UMD case... in about a minute though I figured out that I was an idiot. The game survived.

 

[Shurs]

"I told her that all she needed to do was put in her credit card when prompted." Is it so hard to add the two extra syllables and slide "number" in between "card" and "when?" One could argue that entering a card number is implicit in his phrasing but the whole thing would have been avoided had he taken a quarter of a second to speak properly. I've read other posts by the Original Poster and he seems to be quite intelligent and well spoken. How about a little effort?

I used to own a game shop and some peasants would get so lazy they would refer to PS2's as P2's. Abbreviating abbreviations is also a pet peeve. I should probably lighten up.

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

These stories make me kinda wish I had worked at GameStop at one point.

On second thought I probably would have gotten fired for laughing uncontrollably at the customers.

Much like working in a video store in HS/College/Grad, it's worth it for the tales you can tell later.

Yes, I know this is old, but damnit I love reading this thread and I figure others can post new stories.

 

[discopantsman]

When I was a kid my grandfather bought me my first computer - a VIC 20. This particular model didn't have a disc drive, it had a cassette tape thingee that you used to install programs, games and so on.

Anyway, I really wanted to learn how to write programs on my shiny new pc, so I started from scratch with the DOS exercises in the manual... the first ones were easy (I remember a line of code which went something like '20 GOTO 10') and worked flawlessly. I thought I was pretty hot shit, so skipped a few pages and tackled something a lot harder.

This next program was much more complex and required the user to save the code on a casette tape before it could be installed (or something... memory is fuzzy). Anyway, as I thought I knew it all, I put a fresh cassette in the drive, hit 'record' and started typing.

NOw I was never the fastest typist in my early years, and it showed. I must have tried 20 times to type that pesky DOS program onto the screen before the tape ran out, but I failed every time. I couldn't understand why something so easy as saving a program to cassette could be so hard.

However I was persistent, and came up with a brilliant plan - if a 30-minute tape wasn't 'large' enough to hold my program, surely a 60-minute tape would do the trick? So I went out, bought said tape, sat down with high hopes and started typing. This time - success!! I finished typing long before the tape ran out, so I proudly clicked stop.

Funnily enough, the stupid f*^&ing tape was blank when I went to load my program. I was utterly crushed. Sadly I packed my computer away and hid it in the garage - I thought somehow I'd broken it and didn't want to get into trouble... thus my career as a high-flying software developer neer got off the ground. :lol :lol