New award for funny things..

[Kitten Kong]

now I know the title is rubbish, but I can't think of a better one lol.

On another tech group I belong to, we have this award called the Darius award.

It is a virtual award which is given to the person with the, stupidest, funniest, why the heck did I do that etc story of the week.

It can be something you have forgot to do to a machine. Few examples are
You forgot to remove a cd from the tray.
To having a pen leak in your jeans.
your doing a onsite backup, from an old box to a new one, and you forgot to bring your external drive, or to slave the drive to the new machine..

It can be something your spouse has done, like put red socks in with a white t'shirt, and made your shirt pink.
It could even be running out of petrol/diesel/gas.

It doesn't have to be tech related, though it does help.

I'm just wondering if everyone here would like to add some of their stories?.

The funniest one would receive the award. (Similar to the Darwin awards).

It's all meant in a light hearted manner, I'm sure everyone on the forums here has a good sense of humour. And yes, you may get wound up because of it.

If you don't mind adding your funniest thing story of the week, then add it below, and let's see where this thread can take us to.

 

[Kitten Kong]

I'll start this off.

Earlier in the week, I was given 2 tickets to be a part of an audience in a TV show in the UK called A Question Of Sport.(it used to be extremely difficult to get tickets for this show).

Anyhow, knowing the boss hates sport, and would not want to go, I asked a good mate of mine if he wanted to come with me.

So I ring him up, asked if he watched the show, yes is the reply,

Good, how would you like to come with me on Wed 27th Jan to watch the show live. Recording start at 1930. I don't know what time it finishes.

Oh I don't know. As you know I go to the pub quiz on a Thursday night. You can answer the general knowledge questions. I don't know anything about sport. But if it's a football question, I can do those..

Poor guy, thought we were going to be a part of the show, and I wanted him to join me in my team as it were..

So, the award is being passed over to my mate..

(For now)

 

[PremierTech]

Few months ago I was sorting out a customers PC remotely whilst the customer was out. Was having browser problems, tried just about everything. Clutching at straws I thought "I know lets disable/enable the network card" ohh lost the connection........ 30 min drive to turn it back on.

 

[glennd]

Few months ago I was sorting out a customers PC remotely whilst the customer was out. Was having browser problems, tried just about everything. Clutching at straws I thought "I know lets disable/enable the network card" ohh lost the connection........ 30 min drive to turn it back on.

I did that once, except the computer was on the other side of the world. oops!

 

[JoeTech]

I once spent hours working on a desktop that wasn't getting any power. I basically replaced everything in it only to find out the surge protector I plugged it into wasn't turned on.

Edit - I can't spell either

 

[ajm]

Just last week was called to sort out a customer's PC. After half hour of doing this and that and finding no issues, the light bulb finally came on - I was working on the wrong PC!!!!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Another one from the vaults.

I had to have Carpal Tunnel surgery a few years back.

Had it on my left hand, not a problem. Couple of months later, had the surgery on my right hand.

Anyhow, gave it a couple of days after the surgery. Hand still bandaged up like a mummy.

Had a client come into the workshop, who needed a PSU installing.

Not a problem, pull one from the shelf, unplug his old one, plug the ATX in (whilst keeping hold of the case), and BAM. Static shock went through me, into the psu.

I blew the following..

Power supply
Motherboard
Ram

Naturally I replaced the above for him, at no charge. But what followed was unreal.

For a few days afterwards, no matter what I touched with my right hand, I 'could' get a static shock. It didn't matter if it was conductive, or non conductive like skin. And I'm pretty sure you know what I mean by that.. .

It didn't happen every time.. And I had no ideas, as to when it would happen.

Anyhow, I rang the hospital ward up, told them what happened. The hospital rang me back about 2230, to say, we have made you an appointment to see the consultant at 0945 in the morning. Can you get here?. If not, we will send for a taxi for you.

Turned out, that after some 25,000+ of these operations, they had never ever come across anything like it previously.

They ran a barrage of tests, and found out that I had a vitamin b12 deficiency. I was to take this vit b12 supplement pill, and it should ease.

Within a couple of days, just as quick as it came, the static shocking went.

I tell you, it was pretty hair raising, and a shocking experience!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Just last week was called to sort out a customer's PC. After half hour of doing this and that and finding no issues, the light bulb finally came on - I was working on the wrong PC!!!!

@ajm lol mate, I think your winning the trophy so far!. That is a classic

 

[HCHTech]

Clutching at straws I thought "I know lets disable/enable the network card" ohh lost the connection........ 30 min drive to turn it back on.

I've done this - it's maddening. I spent 30 minutes talking some grandmother through doing a system restore to save an hour's drive out there. ::facepalm:

 

[Altster]

now I know the title is rubbish, but I can't think of a better one lol.

On another tech group I belong to, we have this award called the Darius award.

It is a virtual award which is given to the person with the, stupidest, funniest, why the heck did I do that etc story of the week.

It can be something you have forgot to do to a machine. Few examples are
You forgot to remove a cd from the tray.
To having a pen leak in your jeans.
your doing a onsite backup, from an old box to a new one, and you forgot to bring your external drive, or to slave the drive to the new machine..

It can be something your spouse has done, like put red socks in with a white t'shirt, and made your shirt pink.
It could even be running out of petrol/diesel/gas.

It doesn't have to be tech related, though it does help.

I'm just wondering if everyone here would like to add some of their stories?.

The funniest one would receive the award. (Similar to the Darwin awards).

It's all meant in a light hearted manner, I'm sure everyone on the forums here has a good sense of humour. And yes, you may get wound up because of it.

If you don't mind adding your funniest thing story of the week, then add it below, and let's see where this thread can take us to.

Ok, but why not put it in the General Chat under "We need a humor section, section?"

 

[Altster]

Seems to me that many postings are being put in the wrong locations and I know I've pointed this out in the past.

I guess I'm somewhat a stickler when it comes to a way that something is set up to be used and then is not used (what I would call) correctly.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Kitten Kong]

Just moved it to Gen Chat. Sorry about that.

 

[dnt button]

We had a customer who had left their laptop on the hob and their child had come in and switched on the hob. Could we possibly get the data back? Fortunately the damage was to the diagonal corner to the hard drive. There was evidence that the laptop had been running whilst on the hob.

 

[Kitten Kong]

Think @ajm has won the award this week lol.

Whose going to be receiving it next week?