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Originally Posted by somerfrost
In the meantime, I will relish her victories and pray for one more!
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This reminds me of this prudey old woman that came into my computer store two weeks ago.
She wanted us to fix her laptop, which wasn't turning on. She kept trying to describe problems in a form of English we were unfamiliar with and after about five minutes, my business partner had the brilliant insight to ask her if she had kept the laptop on while in her laptop carrying case.
She said yes.
We then spent the next ten minutes in a three way conversation that went something like this.
Us - " What happened was that by keeping it on while closed up in the case, it ended up gettting too hot in there and the computer cooked itself to death".
Prudey woman - "Ohhhhhhhhhh. Buttt, but, it was working before that"
Us - "Ugh. Yeah, it was working before that because that was before you had killed your laptop. Once you cooked it, the solder melts on the motherboard and your computer can no longer power on."
Prudey woman - "Ah. Well, blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Hey, wait a second, how come it was working before I did that?"
Us - "Have you ever heard of cause and effect? What this means is that when you perform an action that has a consequence, that consequence only effects things in the future. It is not retroactive, meaning it doesn't change our past."
Prudey woman - "That reminds me of this time blah blah blah. More blah blah. But why won't the computer work now??"
Us - "Because it's dead and you murdered it. We can try to fix it by baking the entire motherboard, but that is almost certainly not going to work in your case because you've probably fried the CPU."
We had to explain the before and after thing to her five to six times.
Finally, when she gave up, we had one last exchange.
Prudey woman - "Well, thank you very much, you've been very kind. I'm going to take my laptop and say a prayer for it"
Me - "Well, good luck with that one and let me know how that turns out for you."
Prudey woman - "Ok. You never know about how these things will turn out!"
Me - "Yep. If it does work for you, let me know and you'll have yourself a job here!"
I really needed a hug at that point.
Come to think of it, that Prudey woman kinda reminds me of Prudery.
Woah.