TheTerrible Twos

Here are some of the issues I've seen when a 2 year old interfaces with a computer:
1) Business cards, loose change, and other flat items in the floppy drive.
2) Makeup brush inside the case lying on the motherboard of a desktop. How it got inside the case is beyond me.
3) Broken CD's.
4) Fruit punch everywhere. This make for a sticky keyboard.
5) Missing mouse ball.
6) Crayons and permanent markers utilized to make the case and monitor colorful.
7) Turning off the power before you can save your work.
8) Finger prints all over the screen.
9) Climbing on the cpu to reach cookies on top of the refrigerator.
10) Pounding on the keyboard until the keys fall off.

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Favorite Customer Quote: I need help, my thingy doesn't work!

I get a kick out of people who say, "I've got a CD that's not reading. Can you take a look at it?"
"Sure."
So, they pull out this kid's game of like Winnie the Pooh, and it's covered in peanut butter, and scratches, and thumb prints.
So, I tell them that it's hopeless, and the CD is a coaster and they give these sad puppy dog eyes and say, "But, my kids LOVE this game."

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***the Beast
- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...

Objects in power supply fan. They love anything that moves.

Let's see

1)Oreo in the floppy drive "she thought it was hungry" (actual parents statement)
2)broken cd tray, was used as a chair once
3)completely coated with finger paint
and my favorite
4)crayons forced into the power supply then melting all over the internal drip drip drip

Ah... the disappearing mouse ball. I had a customer ask me to help her with a broken mouse once. I figured I'd show her how to clean it and send her off free of charge.
When she brought it into the shop and I could tell that it felt a little lite. Sure enough, the mouse ball was gone. I guess she though it was a loose or broken part ("It rattled around") so she took it out.

Can remember buying our 1st NEW computer. Pionex 486 DX2/66.

2 days later the floppy was rendered DEAD 'cause our then 6 year old thought it was a piggy bank! We let him live....

Sue

I had a PC I was working on that "wouldn't read a CD". I powered it up, and opened the CDROM and out popped a CD, closed it up, reopened it, and out popped...Another CD ! This thing was like a freaking CD dispensor!
they just kept piling em in there, there were 3 of em in total.

Who needs a two year old?
A friend of mine in high school, who had to be 15 or so at the time, had a Mac, which she colored in entirely with markers. The monitor, mouse, keyboard (every key was a different color...) she thought it looked "pretty" *gag*

[This message has been edited by furlong47 (edited October 05, 2000).]