I had this one, OS was Windows XP:

Luser: I powered on the computer and it shows a blue screen with a bunch of 
stuff on it
Me: What does it say, exactly?
Luser: I don't know, it's too technical
Me: Can you read any of it?
Luser: No I can't, it's too technical
Me: Can you *spell out* any of it?
Luser: No, it's too technical.

And yet when I finally went to where this system was it as the typical BSOD 
with yes, human-readable words "A problem has been detected..."

This person was our receptionist at the time. She was later replaced by another 
one who called me once and asked "are we on the east coast, or west coast?".

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Stupid user tricks

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<[email protected]> wrote:
> After that, another one gave me shit that she couldn't remember her
> login name that she had been using on her desktop daily for years and
> her iphone?

  I once had this conversation:

Luser: What's my logon name?
Me: First initial followed by last name.
Luser: How do you spell that?

  Some people just shut their brains off when they get near a computer.

-- Ben

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