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I was setting up a network laser printer this morning, but I'd promised an old man who lives in a retirement condo community that I'd stop by if at all possible. Me personally, he wanted; and he sounded kind of nervous.

Sooo... when I drove up to the security booth, they were expecting me and waved me right through; and when I got to his condo, he was standing outside looking very anxious. Before he let me in the condo, he stopped me outside and explained his problem.

"I'm in trouble," he said, Big trouble." Not being able to imagine what the harmless old geezer could have done to be in "big trouble," I stood there and patiently waited while he took a deep breath and told me, "Years ago -- 40, maybe 50 years ago -- I took some nude pictures of my wife. I found them recently and scanned them into the computer, and she found them. I copied them to CDs, but now they won't delete from the hard drive.

I stifled a laugh and went inside, and the situation was as he'd described, only that the pics were... um... a bit more than simply nude. Nothing illegal, but let's just say they'd had an interesting and creative marital relationship. :eek: To make matters worse, he'd selected one of the pics as a desktop background that didn't want to go away.

In the meantime, his wife is screaming, "What are we going to do when our grandchildren visit! What will they think if they find those pictures? Their own grandparents! I'm so ashamed!"

Happy ending, though. It turns out that the machine just had all the usual Windows problems, including some filesystem corruption and a bunch of registry errors. A standard tune-up solved all the problems, and we were able to delete the files. :)

When I was done he said, "I want to pay you in cash so there's no record of any of this."

Fine with me. I took the money, drove away, and laughed my a$$ off all the way back to the office.

Rich
 
Now, that's funny.
 
I want to know why he asked specifically for you in this situation. Past history in "this kind of thing"? nudge, nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean? LOL!
 
I'd promised an old man who lives in a retirement condo community that I'd stop by if at all possible. Me personally, he wanted

Rich, that scared me!! Next time add "to help with fixing a computer problem" or something! ((whew))
 
I'd have to see the PIX to really understand what you're talking about...
 
That story is sit-com worthy.

"I can't control it!" "Henry!!! How COULD YOU!"


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I want to know why he asked specifically for you in this situation. Past history in "this kind of thing"? nudge, nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean? LOL!

Hey, now, stop that! LOL.

I think he meant as opposed to one of the college kids who work for me and who might blab about it to their friends (as opposed to posting it on an Internet message board :p ).

Rich
 
I stumbled across a friends collection of bondage pics while helping him with a PC problem once :hairraise: . Hundreds of them. At least the pics were of adults (Obvious adults too at least)...and not him! :eek:. I'm not sure who was more shocked. lol.

Neither of us said a word about it at the time... two days later he called and stumbled through an apology. My response was as long as he didn't try forwarding any to me, I didn't care. :no: Next time he had computer problems though, I was careful NOT to click on any folder that looked it might possibly be a pics folder. And I noticed he had installed an external hard drive..that wasn't hooked up when I got there. I think he probably moved them all to that drive so as not to embarrass both of us again.

I had another friend call me once concerned because she found child-porn on a coworkers home computer while helping him out with a computer problem. She was asking what to do. Ahh.. Call the Police! She did, and he went to jail.
 
For those of you going "eeewwww"... Hold on a moment- he said they had been taken 40-50 YEARS ago! The odds are they were younger then, than you are now!

So, now you are the "eeewwwww"! lol
 
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