I had this lady call in saying that her office was struck by lightning and she was trying to piece a few computers together to get them going. She said she works on computers all the time and she needed a part.

I asked her what she needed and she said she needed to make her nine pin connector a female(gender changer). I said we did not carry them. Having no idea what it was for I asked her. She said she needed to plug in her monitor. I asked her again what it was she needed. I figured she said the wrong part. She told me she needed a nine pin gender changer. I explained that she was looking at the serial port. I asked her to make sure she was trying to plug the monitor into the correct spot. She said yes and was getting irritated with me. I asked her if she was looking at the back of the computer or just reaching around feeling for the socket to plug into. She said she was looking at it. I asked her to count the pins. She of course said there was two rows of pins adding up to nine and the monitor had three rows of pins. There was a long pause and then she asked me if I had an adapter. I tried to explain that she was trying to plug into the wrong spot. She then asked if she should be plugging into com1 or com2. I told her to look for a diagram of a monitor or a serial shaped socket with 15 holes. Well, I think she found it because I heard her say "sh*t" as she hung up on me. I still laugh about it now and then.

By the way what is the strangest thing you ever pulled out of a floppy drive or cd-rom?
I got a jammed cd out of a non-tray Compaq cd-rom drive that the customer said they had already got two others out. Their child, I think his name was "I didn't do it", had kept jamming cds in when they would not work!!!