I use to have the bad habit of telling people who called for help, to "plug it in where it fits", about connecting peripherals to the back of a PC, I stopped doing that after I had to go and personally unplug the keyboard from the ethernet card's coax connection. <g>, true story.

>>>... here's your chance to get your gripes, grievances, petty annoyances, etc. voiced in a humour way.
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>>Well, last week, I talked about this famous situation when a technical support person told the user to close the window and later found out that the user did in fact close the room window and not the one from the Microsoft Windows system. I know it's old but hey, those are the good ones! :)
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>I had a very excitable client call me one morning in absolute panic because her monitor was broken. "Oh my! I have to get bills out today! You have to bring me a new monitor right...."
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>(I could almost HEAR her reach out and fiddle with the brightness control)
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>"Never mind."