RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Geek on the Hill
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.
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$$ off all the way back to the office.
Rich
Sooo... when I drove up to the security booth, they were expecting me and waved me right through; and when I got to his condo, he was standing outside looking very anxious. Before he let me in the condo, he stopped me outside and explained his problem.
"I'm in trouble," he said, Big trouble." Not being able to imagine what the harmless old geezer could have done to be in "big trouble," I stood there and patiently waited while he took a deep breath and told me, "Years ago -- 40, maybe 50 years ago -- I took some nude pictures of my wife. I found them recently and scanned them into the computer, and she found them. I copied them to CDs, but now they won't delete from the hard drive.
I stifled a laugh and went inside, and the situation was as he'd described, only that the pics were... um... a bit more than simply nude. Nothing illegal, but let's just say they'd had an interesting and creative marital relationship.
To make matters worse, he'd selected one of the pics as a desktop background that didn't want to go away.In the meantime, his wife is screaming, "What are we going to do when our grandchildren visit! What will they think if they find those pictures? Their own grandparents! I'm so ashamed!"
Happy ending, though. It turns out that the machine just had all the usual Windows problems, including some filesystem corruption and a bunch of registry errors. A standard tune-up solved all the problems, and we were able to delete the files.
When I was done he said, "I want to pay you in cash so there's no record of any of this."
Fine with me. I took the money, drove away, and laughed my a$$ off all the way back to the office.
Rich
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.
