Re: Stupid Users

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From: d... David Anderson
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 03:51

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In article <10353@stiatl.UUCP> tok@stiatl.UUCP (Terry Kane) writes:
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>How about a user, confronted by a typical "press any key" message,
>calling tech support complaining...
>
>	But I don't have an ANY key on my keyboard!
>
>-- 

Yes! I've had a user complain about not having an 'ANY' key.

So, I said to her "Pick a key .. any key you like!"

She pressed the SHIFT key ... and (you guessed it) nothing happened.

I had to then try and explain to her why she couldn't use the 
SHIFT , CTRL and CAPS LOCK keys.

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From: d...@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (David Anderson)
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