This one's a fun one.
I was helping someone the other day whose computer kept freezing up when he tried to launch Internet Explorer (our company won't let us support Firefox). He wasn't really sucky, but was getting kind of frustrated when the first few things we tried didn't work. After some more fiddling, I asked him to try again.
Me: Ok, double-click on Internet Explorer again and let me know what happens.
Him: Nothing ... wait! Ooh! Ooh! I got an hourglass!
This was uttered with all the glee and excitement of a small child opening presents on Christmas morn. Then he exclaimed the following with utter jubilation and triumph.
Him: I got a webpage! IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!
I was trying hard not to laugh because I didn't want him to get the wrong idea, but it just tickled me that he was So Frickin' Excited to get back on the internet. Imagine the scene they have in some movies, where a woman has been in labor for a long time, and there may be something wrong, but then the baby is born, and the father burst out of the room holding the baby shouting "I HAVE A SON!!!" That is exactly the tone of voice this guy used when he shouted "IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!"
I was helping someone the other day whose computer kept freezing up when he tried to launch Internet Explorer (our company won't let us support Firefox). He wasn't really sucky, but was getting kind of frustrated when the first few things we tried didn't work. After some more fiddling, I asked him to try again.
Me: Ok, double-click on Internet Explorer again and let me know what happens.
Him: Nothing ... wait! Ooh! Ooh! I got an hourglass!
This was uttered with all the glee and excitement of a small child opening presents on Christmas morn. Then he exclaimed the following with utter jubilation and triumph.
Him: I got a webpage! IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!
I was trying hard not to laugh because I didn't want him to get the wrong idea, but it just tickled me that he was So Frickin' Excited to get back on the internet. Imagine the scene they have in some movies, where a woman has been in labor for a long time, and there may be something wrong, but then the baby is born, and the father burst out of the room holding the baby shouting "I HAVE A SON!!!" That is exactly the tone of voice this guy used when he shouted "IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!"

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