Tech Stuff

* Tech Support: “Sir, Click Start, then Run, and type the letters C, M, and D.”
* Customer: “Wait a minute, don’t run off the end of the earth away from me now. I can only go so fast with this thing.”
* Tech Support: “Sorry, sir. Did you click Start?”
* Customer: “Where is that start button? Oh, here is is. Now what?”
* Tech Support: “Um, did you click it?”
* Customer: “Dammit, no, do that now?”
* Tech Support: “Yes, then click on the word Run.”
* Customer: “Dammit, slow down!!! Run, run, run, where the hell is run?”
* Tech Support: “Should be a the very bottom of the Start Menu that came up on the screen.”
* Customer: “I already clicked Start. Click it again?”
* Tech Support: “No, it should be there in the lower left corner.”
* Customer: “Hey, I found the word Run. You want that instead?”
* Tech Support: “Sure, why not? We’ll see if that works. Did you click it?”
* Customer: “Yes.”
* Tech Support: “Ok, type the letters C, M, and then D.”
* Customer: “Slow down, dammit!! I’m not a programmer!!! I told you I’m only a car dealer!!”
* Tech Support: “Sorry, again, sir, what do you have there?”
* Customer: “Z.”
* Tech Support: “No, we need ‘C’ like ‘Charlie.’”
* Customer: “C-H-A-R–”
* Tech Support: “Not the whole word ‘Charlie,’ sir, just the ‘C,’ please.”
* Customer: “If you don’t want a Charlie, why tell me to type it?”
* Tech Support: “Um, what’s in the box now?”
* Customer: “I’m trying to find the eraser here.”
* Tech Support: “Just hit the backspace key.”
* Customer: “That just moves it further to the right without typing anything.”
* Tech Support: “Which backspace key did you press?”
* Customer: “The long one in the middle. I pressed it on the back side.”
Eventually, we “found” the correct backspace key and got that Z replaced with a C.
* Tech Support: “Now that we just have a ‘C’ there, type an ‘M,’ like ‘Mary,’ but just the ‘M,’ ok?”
* Customer: “M-O-K.”
* Tech Support: “Remember that backspace key?”
* Customer: “Yes.”
* Tech Support: “Press it twice.”
* Customer: “All right, but it took off the ‘O’ and ‘K’ you wanted.”
* Tech Support: “Never mind that, I’ll live. Now type a ‘D,’ just the letter D.”
* Customer: “D. Now what?”
* Tech Support: “Now press the enter key.”
* Customer: “E-N-T-E-R.”
* Tech Support: “Is there anyone else around the lot that is maybe a little more familiar with computers than you are?”
* Customer: “Well, my wife uses one at her work and might be a little more familiar. She comes in in an hour. You want to talk to her?”
* Tech Support: “Yes, please.”