>There are plenty of stories out there of idiot things done by "someone else" but anyone want to admit to any of their own? I really can't (better not) be the only one!
>

Not quite at idiot level, but enough to make me laugh pretty hard:

I bought a new laptop about 18 months ago. I knew one of the things built in was wireless networking. I didn't get a chance to try it until I was a WhilFest last year. But I couldn't get it to connect. I got a couple of people to look at the various settings, even uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for it, and no go.

Couple of weeks later, when I had a few minutes to spare, I looked in the manual, but couldn't turn anything up, so I called Toshiba. Explained my problem to the young lady on the other end, and the first question she asked was "Did you turn it on?" "The computer? Of course." "No," she said, "the wireless port. There's a switch on the front of the computer to turn wireless on and off." Sure enough, there was. Even has the words "on" and "off."

Tamar