Craig

How about (in the early days of our Wireless network connectivity)

JR: We're off the internet. Again.
XX: Is that PLATO's office?
JR: Yep.
XX. OooooOOOoooooooh.
JR: What do you mean OooooOOOoooooooh.
XX. Well, the recommended distance from repeater to dish is less than 10km. You're 12 km.
JR: Your firm installed it. Your people came out here with all sorts of metering equipment and said that because of our elevation and clear line of site, it'll be fine.
XX: I'm just trying to help, I'm trying to explain that you're having problems because you're more than 10km from the repeater.
JR: But it worked fine till this week.
XX: You're lucky.
JR:
JR: OK, so why did you install it?
XX: We shouldn't have.
JR:
JR: So what do you recommend?
XX: It would help if you were less than 10km from the repeater.
JR: How do you recommend I achieve that?
XX: You could always change office.
JR: Yes, and I could also change network provider to somebody a little more constructive.
XX: Hey, it isn't my fault your office is where it is. I'm only trying to help.

* Later in the day *

JR: OK, the internet is back on.
YY: Yes, we've fixed that repeater fault.
JR: What repeater fault?
YY: The one that knocked you off the Internet.
JR: I don't believe this. Why didn't somebody tell me?
YY:
YY: According to our records, XX spent a considerable time discussing the matter with you this morning. He felp that you had a good understanding of the issue.
JR: Sigh. OK, thanks.

Regards

JR

"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1