Work Post #2
Oct. 10th, 2005 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI got to have a great Pythonesque moment on the other day when I had to tell a customer that her lack of internet may be due to a dead Linksys wireless router (which had gotten very hot, sparked, shut-down and was smelling of burnt ozone).
"A Dead Router?" she asked "...And what exactly does that mean?"
I was stunned for a moment. Then I replied:
"A dead router? That means that it's dead. Not working. Broken. Extinct. Deceased. Pushing up the dasies. No longer listed amongst the working appliances in your home. Fragged. Busted. Non-functional. Buggered. Passed on to Silicon Heaven. In short, this is an EX-ROUTER!"
...And I highly doubt that it was just pining for the Fjords.
"A Dead Router?" she asked "...And what exactly does that mean?"
I was stunned for a moment. Then I replied:
"A dead router? That means that it's dead. Not working. Broken. Extinct. Deceased. Pushing up the dasies. No longer listed amongst the working appliances in your home. Fragged. Busted. Non-functional. Buggered. Passed on to Silicon Heaven. In short, this is an EX-ROUTER!"
...And I highly doubt that it was just pining for the Fjords.
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Date: 2005-10-10 09:49 pm (UTC)Wow.... that's a new level of the cognative abilities of our customers :P
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Date: 2005-10-10 11:24 pm (UTC)But of course she knew it couldn't be her router, because she hadn't done anything to it.
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Date: 2005-10-10 11:42 pm (UTC)you're my hero.
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Date: 2005-10-10 11:44 pm (UTC)My router pines on a regular basis. Now, I let it go for springy little walks once a week and it works fine.
Very Monty Python of you.
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Date: 2005-10-10 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 06:30 am (UTC)I bow to your holy eminence.
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Date: 2005-10-11 06:01 pm (UTC)Re: **clap****clap****clap****clap**
Date: 2005-10-11 10:46 pm (UTC)