So I am home on vacation for a few weeks and decided to service my old clients…err, that sounds weird, I visited my old clients to see if they needed my help.

One of my very good clients decided to bring an old PC from the office back to his house to use ‘aol’. He said he was having problems and would I mind coming over to his house to help him out. I told him I was supposed to go to a bar that night with my friend but we could stop by for a few minutes, figure out the problem, and come back the next night to fix it.

I show up and realize he brought the oldest damn PC he could find home. So he said he stuck the AOL CD into the PC but nothing happened. I looked at the PC but didn’t see a CD drive…then I noticed a floppy drive…5.1/4. I started hysterical laughing. He said it fit so he thought it was a drive, never seeing an older floppy. When I cought my breath I asked him how in the world he got the disc out…he said that was the tough part, he had to turn the tower forward for the disc to slide out. LOL.

I’ve heard people using a CD tray as a cup holder but i’ve never seen someone stick a CD into a floppy drive. LOL.

Erik

I guess that’s what you get for going back into consulting.

That’s classic. 

that’s the good one.

maybe the setting wasn’t autorun :D

I am sure if you had tried to take out CD you would have found a cup of Coffee inside PC as this Guy may assume that PC has a slot for holding Coffee Cup too.

He probably was used to those drives where you just slide the disc in.

Wow, that’s incredible!

Such bright people around us. Hey, i want to do consulting too !  8)

If you do, just remember that “consult” is a contraction of the verbs “con” and “insult”. I dropped out of the biz because I’m not good at the former, even if I’ve mastered the latter.

Hey, we aren’t all con artists…I know I am but I am sure there are several honest ones out there…there must be

We are like the general contractors of the computer biz…except we finish the jobs, but still charge and arm and a leg

I do miss it though…the work I did this weekend was free of charge, to all my best clients.

Erik

If you were willing and the client relationship is made better by it, then the rest is just the ‘fun in the middle’. 

I do that kinda stuff all the time.  Without happy clients I am nothing. 

Awesome job, Erik!

How that comp still works is amazing i always break something with the comps i use