Silliest questions youve heard...

[robduckyworth]

That's the problem with customers...lots of questions (sometimes silly ones)...but few buyers!

- Nick

She did the old "ill be back in tommorrow when i have money" trick. id rather they just said "okay, ill find something else actually thanks". but oh well lol.

Another funny story was actually a member of staff. considering the fact that mobile phones are a major part of our business, it was astounding when this staff member ran up to me with a "mysterious object".

With pure confusion on his face, he asks me, "Rob, what in GODS NAME IS THIS?!"

It was an iPhone charger.

 

[Ttaylor394]

A girl i knew in my undergrad asked me in late January one year..
"Should we tell black people happy MLK Jr. Day?"
I said
I'm not sure. But, if you do, wait until I'm not around.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

I used to work with this girl who was incredibly dense. I was talking about something related to DVDs with another co-worker when she spins around and says something like "Hey! Don't you have to have a cable TV box to use a DVD player?" It was at that moment when I actually saw light bend in her vicinity.

 

[j0nb0y32]

Absolutely not connected to computers in any way, but my sister, who was 24 at the time, asked if Rohypnol was made from Rapeseed.

I do wonder what planet she's on some times.

that's just made be burst....

 

[nezing]

A tech guy friend of mine was having a very bad day.When a lady asked him via the phone what should she do as her PC had a virus,he told her to switch it off,unplug it from the main power supply,and "put it to bed" for a few days till the virus goes.

He nearly got "fired" over that,but it's as funny as heck ,when told after a few (many) beers,on a Friday night!!

 

[SFBloodBrother]

I can sort of relate to this. It is like teaching my grandma about her cellphone and even a computer. It is hard. I have a check list for my grandma on how to turn it one, and how to sign in and everything to click on, and access the internet and all about that. Still she gets stuck with everything and she will call me over, and all I do is just click on the back button.

I offered to buy her computer training, but she does not want it.

 

[Kaioshoryuken1]

Allright, I may now make a fool of myself, but it happened to me that someone had sent me an E-mail with a print screen containing a picture of a window that had a button that said " Close Window " ......

Guess what I did ..... several times ?

If it is any excuse .... it was late in the evening and my mouse was faster than my brain.

Cheers ... McBie

Thanks, I just lol'd.

Something I would do.

 

[SaucerBoy]

Ha!

A tech guy friend of mine was having a very bad day.When a lady asked him via the phone what should she do as her PC had a virus,he told her to switch it off,unplug it from the main power supply,and "put it to bed" for a few days till the virus goes.

He nearly got "fired" over that,but it's as funny as heck ,when told after a few (many) beers,on a Friday night!!

Being the IT guy in the family I'm going to have to use this one the next time I'm confronted with a problem.

 

[cwa107]

Being the IT guy in the family I'm going to have to use this one the next time I'm confronted with a problem.

I often tell people that the problem is "a loose nut behind the keyboard". Some of them actually get it too

 

[JUKE179r]

Wanna hear the silliest thing I ever heard .... no ? well too late.

My company had a global workshop in Cairo, Egypt.
On the last day, they organized diner in the desert, next to the pyramids ... local entertainment ..... the lot.

At one point I was standing outside and looking at the pyramids and a guy came up and stood next to me and we started a conversation on how great the pyramids are etc.
Then he said ( and I quote ) " I wonder why they built them so close to the city ? "
I looked at him without saying a word and he was dead serious.
Didn't know what to say, so I started talking work.
That person is now no longer with the company ( don't know if there is a relation between these events -_- )

Cheers ... McBie

 

[SaucerBoy]

I often tell people that the problem is "a loose nut behind the keyboard". Some of them actually get it too

Whenever my teacher has a problem he says the "A-S-S RAM is jammed."

 

[Ctrl-Opt-Del]

" I wonder why they built them so close to the city ? "

Reminds me of a joke from the Christmas special of an old British TV show called "'Til Death do we Part"; the father is recounting the story of the nativity, & when he gets to the part of there being no room at the inn, the mother chips-in with "Well, yeah. It was Christmas, everywhere's always booked-up at Christmas!"

 

[MQAAord]

I was a flight attendant for 7 years... the questions asked of me there were even dumber than when I'd worked tech support desk in college.

"What ocean is that?" [While flying over Lake Michigan on approach to Chicago]
"What city is that?" [While flying over any random small town in the U.S.]

Oh the list goes on and on but alas I have to run right now....

 

[JimboMac]

Not necessarily a silly question... but a silly answer.

This was overheard at a Best Buy.

Customer: "What is a print buffer and what does it do?"
Best Buy Associate: "That's the part of the printer that buffs the letters onto the page."

 

[JimboMac]

In the early 1990s I was installing some PCs at a call center. This is one of those outbound call centers where they call people to sell things from time share to upgrading your cable service.

I was under one cubicle installing a PC and there was a smokin' hot blonde woman in the cubicle next to me.

She kept looking at her screen and quietly saying:

"Jesus."
"Jesus."
"Jesus."
"Jesus."

I got out from under the cube and asked if something was wrong. She said "I don't know if I can ask for Jesus on the phone."

I looked at the name on the screen. Jesus Ramirez.

I told her "It's pronounced "hey zeus."