Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Talking computers with a cashier at my grocery store.

Author
Message
AlanC
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Sep 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 07:55 Edited at: 12th Apr 2008 07:56
Link
Yesterday I was at a grocery store near my house called "Tops", and I was paying the cashier, when we started talking about computers. We then started talking about spyware and stuff. She looked very young, like 20's. I was shocked what she said.

Lady: "My Windows computer has been running so slow lately"
Me: "Have you been running spyware/virus removal software?"
Lady: "What?"
Me: "Have you been getting ride of the Spyware? Have you been defragging your computer?"
Lady: "What's spyware? What's defragging?"
Me: "Its what slows down your computer. Have you been getting ride of it?"
Lady: "Well, no. I have never heard of spyware."
Me: "What do you do when your computer starts to slow down?"
Lady: "Oh, I just toss it, and buy a new computer every year."


I was so shocked Lol.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 08:00 Edited at: 12th Apr 2008 08:01
Link
welcome to reality

I had a guy at work the other day who called in and turned out he was running ie5 and didn't know how to update.


Hurray for teh logd!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Sid Sinister
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2005
Location:
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 08:28
Link
Quote: "Lady: "Oh, I just toss it, and buy a new computer every year.""


I would have got her number and told her to sell me her computers when she was done with them. I could fix them up and sell them for more!

Quote: "
I had a guy at work the other day who called in and turned out he was running ie5 and didn't know how to update."


Yeah... don't you wish you could just tell customers like that to unplug everything and bring it back to the store? Lol.

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
-Computer Animation Major @Baker.edu-
Back to top
Profile PM Email
PAGAN_old
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Jan 2006
Location: Capital of the Evil Empire
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 08:41
Link
Thats how i find good working computers in the dump

dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Osiris
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Aug 2004
Location: Robbinsdale, MN
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 09:21
Link
Quote: "I would have got her number and told her to sell me her computers when she was done with them. I could fix them up and sell them for more!"


I would have gotten her number because shes rich!

j/k

Did you kindly offer to go to her house and teach her the ways of the "right way people"?

RIP Max-Tuesday, November 2 2007
You will be dearly missed.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Seppuku Arts
Moderator
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 18th Aug 2004
Location: Cambridgeshire, England
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 12:51
Link
Oh dear, well I suppose not everybody is computer healthy, though I would have thought she would have got a technical guy to look at it (based on her lack of computer knowledge) - as it is cheaper than buying a new computer, then she would have learned about Spyware.

Though people like her are easy victims for fraud, after all her bank details are...

Just kidding, but you should have slapped her in the face and said you fool! Mind you my sister, she knows about spyware, yet refuses to listen to me and doesn't want to remove them, despite the potential harm, then goes on the Mac saying "I don't wanna use my computer because it's crap and annoying." (The annoyance partially being the 'you have spyware' warnings)

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
Back to top
Profile PM Website
monotonic
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Mar 2006
Location: Nottinghamshire, England
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 14:41
Link
Quote: ""Oh, I just toss it, and buy a new computer every year.""


I do something similar, whenever the battery runs out on my laptop I just buy a new one making sure it's fully charged beforehand

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Back to top
Profile PM
SunnyKatt
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2006
Location: USA
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 18:28
Link
Quote: "Oh, I just toss it, and buy a new computer every year"



....Wow. Does that job make more than I think?

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
xplosys
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Jan 2006
Playing: FPSC Multiplayer Games
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 19:08
Link
A while back, I recovered a computer and installed Norton AV for a customer. A few days later, the computer was back in the shop with a virus. When I checked the browser history, downloaded files, when certain programs were installed, etc... I was able to trace the problem to something she had downloaded.

As I began to delve into the problem with the customer, this is basically what she relayed to me:

"I was trying to download a screensaver and Norton kept blocking it, saying that it was infected, so I turned Norton off."

You gotta' love it!

Best.

fpsFREE.com - for FREE FPSC Content
Back to top
Profile PM
Matt Rock
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Mar 2005
Location: Binghamton NY USA
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 21:05
Link
I need to stop reading thread titles when I'm half asleep. I thought you meant you went to the grocery store and the cashier was a talking computer... I was like "uh... we've had automated checkout lines for like, what, six years now?"

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Insert Name Here
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Mar 2007
Location: Worcester, England
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 21:08
Link
...That's exactly what I first thought.


And don't get me started on tech support Xplosys! I've heard of some really stupid users who just won't listen to the techs.

Lee Bamber - Blame Beer
Back to top
Profile PM
Agent Dink
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Mar 2004
Location:
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 21:09
Link
'tis what I thought too.

It's amazing the ignorance of some people. I'd have definitely offered to go and help her out and teach her how PCs work ^_^

MISoft Studios - Silver-Dawn

Back to top
Profile PM
AlanC
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Sep 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 21:21
Link
Sorry if the title was misleading. I was tired too when I posted.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
SunnyKatt
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2006
Location: USA
Posted: 12th Apr 2008 21:27
Link
Lol @ xplosys's story.

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
bobert
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Oct 2007
Location: where ever they sell chocolate
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 00:10
Link
Lol no wonder she works at the grocery store

therapy has taught me not to talk to men with needles
Back to top
Profile PM
Sigh
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Dec 2005
Location: The Big 80s
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 00:46
Link
Quote: "the cashier was a talking computer"


Well they do have those. Much faster than waiting for a normal cashier, as long as there aren't a bunch of idiots in line for it who have no clue and stumble through scanning/paying.

Fighting the War Against Misused Apostrophes since 2002! Stop by for a chat! [IXE]Nateholio on irc.maxgaming.net:6667 #GarageGames
Back to top
Profile PM
Insert Name Here
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Mar 2007
Location: Worcester, England
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 00:48
Link
Hence
Quote: ""uh... we've had automated checkout lines for like, what, six years now?""



Lee Bamber - Blame Beer
Back to top
Profile PM
tha_rami
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Mar 2006
Location: Netherlands
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 02:55
Link
Lol @ xplosys.

Try explaining that a wireless router in fact, requires a power cord and a signal input cord...


A mod has been erased by your signature because it was larger than 600x120
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
bitJericho
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 03:00 Edited at: 13th Apr 2008 03:08
Link
It's easy to rag on non-computer users. But this whole situation gets reversed when I take my car into the shop...

"And can you check the oil, I think I've been checking the transmission fluid instead by accident..."

"Fair enough"


Hurray for teh logd!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
SunnyKatt
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Sep 2006
Location: USA
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 03:09
Link
Or with some sports.

ZEKEGAMES FORUMS-GOOGLE "Zekegames"
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=20
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Agent Dink
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Mar 2004
Location:
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 07:12
Link
Yeah... I guess I know plenty about PCs... but I guess when it comes to girls, sports, and cars...

In fact I guess computers is all I know! So I shouldn't poke fun!

MISoft Studios - Silver-Dawn

Back to top
Profile PM
Not_Maindric
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Jul 2007
Location: Omaha, NE
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 07:24
Link
Sports, cars, and engeneering, I suck at, not so much engineering, but the plumbing, air duct, and crap like that, no.

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Sigh
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Dec 2005
Location: The Big 80s
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 09:48
Link
Cars? People should know the basics of cars, just like computers.

Now sports - useless in life so why bother?

SportsCars however.....ahhh the joy of motoring in a T-top sportscar!

Fighting the War Against Misused Apostrophes since 2002! Stop by for a chat! [IXE]Nateholio on irc.maxgaming.net:6667 #GarageGames
Back to top
Profile PM
Dream
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 25th Jan 2008
Location: Doncaster
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 09:54
Link
Quote: "Lady: "My Windows computer has been running so slow lately""


i think she was flirting with you lol
Back to top
Profile PM
Veron
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Nov 2006
Location:
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 10:03
Link
Computers, sports and planes, that's pretty much all I know. Oh, and how to waste money.


Back to top
Profile PM
dan958
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 7th Feb 2008
Location:
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 19:45
Link
well i got a free pc because somebody was going to throw it becuase it didnt work, all i did was re-install windows and BAM! a free pc
Back to top
Profile PM
Nemesis_0_
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Dec 2003
Location: Canada
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 20:12
Link
Was she hot? If so this is why we have random "girlfriend" threads...

Next time you see her ask her if shes had any luck getting her computer to run faster. if she hasn't yet bought a new one, offer to help her out, and give her your number! If she calls you go over and help her out. If she offers you money for your help DONT TAKE IT (Keep it a friendly gesture instead of making it business). As you are fixing her computer and explaining to her how to do everything on her own just get into some friendly chit chat. If all works out you have a new "Friend". Then you can start going over for reasons not computer related :p
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Roxas
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 11th Nov 2005
Location: http://forum.thegamecreators.com
Posted: 13th Apr 2008 20:20
Link
And do not "LOL" around for things like these

Your signature has been erased by a mod because it was too big
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Libervurto
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Jun 2006
Location: On Toast
Posted: 16th Apr 2008 02:07
Link
Quote: " i would've asked for her number because she's rich "

i would've asked for her number because she's a girl! :p

i think there was a bit of flirting going on, but then i always think there's flirting going on :p
STOP FLIRTING WITH ME GUYS!! :p

Back to top
Profile PM Email
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-20 04:40:54
Your offset time is: 2024-11-20 04:40:54