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“Well, you can fix it, right?”
This happened a year ago:
Doc Mordrid’s post reminded me of it
A customer came in with his computer and demanded that I fixed it right now!
Sure I said, but it will cost you
“I don’t care I really need it today” the customer said
Ok, what’s wrong with it?
“Lightning struck last week and after that it has been hard to get it to start”
Kay, If you just wait here or…I didn’t get any longer because he cut me of…
“I want to watch you fix it” Great, it was going to be one of these jobs
So I he followed me into the cramped shoebox that was my Workshop then!
I hooked the computer up and pushed the powerbutton….
WHAMMO!
The computer jumped about a foot forward and to the left!
The lights cut out and the fire alarm, which is on a different circuit started to blare!
The smell of burning plastic permeated the air and an acrid smoke started to flow out of the computer!
I grabbed it and ran out of the store, put it down and backed up and tried to remember where the fire hydrant where and if we had one…
When the customer reached me outside the smoke had ceased….
“Well, you can fix it, right?” he asked dead serious….
Amazingly his hard drive lived long enough for me to save his data……
The rest was toast; he ended up buying a new computer
Doc Mordrid’s post reminded me of it
A customer came in with his computer and demanded that I fixed it right now!
Sure I said, but it will cost you
“I don’t care I really need it today” the customer said
Ok, what’s wrong with it?
“Lightning struck last week and after that it has been hard to get it to start”
Kay, If you just wait here or…I didn’t get any longer because he cut me of…
“I want to watch you fix it” Great, it was going to be one of these jobs
So I he followed me into the cramped shoebox that was my Workshop then!
I hooked the computer up and pushed the powerbutton….
WHAMMO!
The computer jumped about a foot forward and to the left!
The lights cut out and the fire alarm, which is on a different circuit started to blare!
The smell of burning plastic permeated the air and an acrid smoke started to flow out of the computer!
I grabbed it and ran out of the store, put it down and backed up and tried to remember where the fire hydrant where and if we had one…
When the customer reached me outside the smoke had ceased….
“Well, you can fix it, right?” he asked dead serious….
Amazingly his hard drive lived long enough for me to save his data……
The rest was toast; he ended up buying a new computer
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