Dumb user

[eamonhotep]

This is from this morning. I seem to get at least one each day.

Someone put in a help ticket about a dead mouse. I brought one down and they already had a USB trackball and a 3button PS2. Neither worked, but the trackball had a USB to PS2 converter on it. Why? Who knows, there are four USB ports that are sitting there empty.

So I get the trackball plugged in and working and say,

<me>"Okay looks like the PS2 port on the computer is bad"
<him>"Oh, so the mouse is bad?"
<me> "No, the port on the back of the PC is bad"
<him>"Wait a minute"

He goes to a cabinet and pulls out another PS2 mouse, plugs it in.

<me>"The port is bad on the computer"
<him>"Well could the trackball be cancelling out the others?"
<me>"No, this plugs into a USB port and the others go into the PS port, which is broken."

He stares at the trackball and then the other three mice.

<him>"So all these are broken?"
<me>"No, the port on the back of the PC is broken."
<him>"Well I don't want to use the trackball mouse"
<me>Okay, I can go see if there is a spare USB mouse around."
<him>"Great!"

Scoops up the other three mice

<him>"Can I keep these?!"

I walk off to shoot myself.