[rescue] Perverse Question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jun 16 01:45:20 CDT 2003


On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 09:41 PM, KRM wrote:
> Perspective indeed.
> We had a new girl start at work last week.  Once she was informed that 
> i was in the IT dept. she naturally started asking me about her home 
> Win32 PC issues, and i went into my, quick and to the point, speech 
> stating that i don't use Windows and couldn't really give an opinion 
> on her issues one way or another.  She then asked, "What else is 
> there?  Do you use DOS?".  I certainly don't expect your average 
> person to be aware of all the esoteric options available to the geeks 
> of the world, but i would have at least expected her to assume OSX or 
> MacOS.  Microsoft knows how to lead their sheep.

   The only things people like us can do are:

   - try to educate them, or
   - not associate with them.

       -Dave

--
Dave McGuire             "I've grown hair again, just
St. Petersburg, FL           for the occasion."       -Doc Shipley



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