... What?

[Flying Grype]

When I first looked at PC computers, some 30 years ago, I couldn't get any of the sales people to tell me how to use one, or even what the difference was between an 8088, 8086 or 80286 computer. A PC ended up being the third computer I bought, after a TI99/4A and an Apple //e. Everything I know about them has been self taught.

We had the //e, that was our first computer. Dad got it for business but we played games on it. Not only dedicated games, either -- I taught myself how to use an integrated office suite by playing Mad Libs with pfs write and pfs file. Fill the database entry and the words pop into the right places in the story.

I knew a few of the differences between computers -- such as, the IIgs had more colours on the screen than our //e. :P Hey, I was eight, that's what I cared about.

[jjc927]

Seriously, how did she not know anything about using this camera? Surely she's seen SOMEONE doing it the right way.

[jjllbb]

holy crap she's an idiot. And she blames you because she knows how stupid she made herself look.

[the lawsmeister]

LOL!!! i wonder if she got any good close-ups of her eye?

LOL I remember one of the finalists on funniest home videos when I was a kid was of an elderly couple trying to use their new video camera. It consisted of several minutes of close ups of the husband's eye with the comments like
Press the pause
I can't see the pause
(at no point was it called the pause button, just "the pause")
look in it properly. You should see the pause
I am, I can't see anything.

Can't remember if they won or not.

[XCashier]

I'll bet the manual has pictures showing what the front of the camera looks like. Of course, being an SC she doesn't know how bother to read.

FTFY.

Digital cameras look enough like film cameras that it should be blatantly obvious which part is the lens. Shame on her for not thinking things through, and double shame for putting the blame on you. I hope your manager backs you up.

[the_std]

I did warn my manager during my shift today, and his reaction was his patented Eyebrow Raise and an "oooooookaaaaay...", followed by assurances that she was just a stupid cow and that I did nothing wrong, especially since I never actually sold her the camera in the first place, so couldn't have made sure that she knew how to use it before she left.

Also, this woman was, at most, late thirties. Way too young to use the old-timer excuse. That made it all the more surreal.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Read
The
Fornicating
Manual

Hell! Most of the gorram things are pictograms so people who can not read English (or read at all for that matter) can figure at least the basics of how to put in the batteries, the memory card and what button to press.

Damn but people are stupid.

[ravevolution]

Uhm there is sucha thing as a owners manual. . . I think she should read it

[dalesys]

Uhm there is sucha thing as a owners manual. . . I think she should read it

"They" made her read an owner's manual once in school...

It was gross! And scary!

So she'll never read another one.


Personal Health class FTW.

[Marmalady]

I have said it before, but I think it bears repeating - every time something is made idiot-proof, they invent a better idiot.

[protege]

Uhm there is sucha thing as a owners manual. . . I think she should be smacked upside the head with it

Fixed that for you

Seriously though, she's just another person who really shouldn't be allowed to own anything more complex than a Bic pen

[XCashier]

Seriously though, she's just another person who really shouldn't be allowed to own anything more complex than a Bic pen

A Bic pen? You're being generous. Don't you know you could stab someone with those things?! I'd suggest giving her a chew toy and putting her back in her cage.

[Ironclad Alibi]

A Bic pen? You're being generous. Don't you know you could stab someone with those things?! I'd suggest giving her a chew toy and putting her back in her cage.

You don't have to worry about her stabbing someone. Even if she did manage to get the cap off, she would just stab herself.

[protege]

Even if she did manage to get the cap off, she would just stab herself.

...and the problem takes care of itself. Darwin would be proud

[He who Attends]

God i think i smell blood, i really don't know whether to laugh or cry, i don't think i could have held my tongue after that last part XD