Your Daily Cup of WTF ... But It's All Plugged In

Your partial cross post from TheDailyWTF.com:

I've been programming for quite a long time - since I was about twelve or so. Of course no one in there right mind would hire a seventeen year-old programmer (even one with five years experience), so I got a job as a PC support technician. And like many other technician-wanna-be-developers, I absolutely hated it. But in retrospect, I did get some pretty fun stories out of it. Although none as entertaining as this one, from Brent Railey's Technician Support days:

We sold a computer to an elderly lady who took it home. We had tested it, and it worked great at the store. But, when she got it home, she could not get it to turn on.

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