Connie, some people just go into a blind panic when they have to do anything out of the ordinary on their computers.

The friend I stayed with in Vermont wanted to borrow my computer to get online, which I sure didn't mind. Then it turned out that she didn't know how to log out of Facebook or GMail. sigh

I like the folks who admit up front that they don't know/are intimidated by their computers. I tell them that I don't know how to do their jobs, so why should they know how to do my job? And a lot of people in the construction/insurance industry got into it so they didn't have to sit in an office and work on computers. I tell them, "And the computers caught you anyway." It's the ones who are eager to be "helpful" that annoy me. Oh, and who bitch about "Well, that was easy, I shouldn't have had to pay for that."

Timelies all!

Since all of my outdoor shoes are black, I wear black shoes with jeans. (All of my belts are black as well. All numbering two...)

Working as application support for the Houghton Mifflin textbook salesforce really gave me a workout, because they were as smart a group of people as you could ever want -- all of them were ex-teachers usually with graduate degrees (including in some cases doctorates) and sometimes ex-principals. I would tell them not to worry because they hadn't been hired for their computer skills, and I couldn't do their jobs.

Answering PC questions for some people in IT, on the other hand, really does boggle me. It's not like we're a mainframe shop or do any work that's really far away from the platform of all our users--Windows. Lots of people stumble on the OS, Office, don't understand basic principles of websites or the Internet, and I've learnt there's an allowable difference between .NET developer and web developer.

Oh, wow, that's cruel. Only to dessert-seeking humans, and only to their psyche, but given that, dude.

Lots of people stumble on the OS, Office

I have been on Apple OS for so long that having a Windows machine in the office is weird. I get flummoxed on weird things. Usually only once but it's strange because I think I just know PCs until I am stumped.

I did passive aggressively make someone else add a printer and change all my default print settings in the crazy Avimark program the other day though. But that was just because she refused to order toner (after over a month of asking) for the printer I did need and so I wanted her to be stressed and inconvenienced too. Petty but it made me feel better.

I deal with this by never wearing brown at all.

Exactly.

All shoes are black or silver. Occasionally gray. Easy peasy. But then that describes pretty much all of my clothing too. I think I have one green sweater.

The fire at Windsor Castle was 21 years ago. I disbelieve. Unfortunately, I failed the throw.