For today...you're smarter than this..

[bodybuilder1958]

you've done stupid stuff, but you're definitely smarter than these people.

An man purchased a laptop from me. He called about a week later and said that it would no longer boot up. He brought it in, and I discovered that sixteen nicely drilled holes were in the bottom of the case. I asked him about it, and he said the machine was too hot sitting on his lap, so he had drilled these "air holes."

"Could that be the problem?" he asked.
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One day a customer called complaining that he just received his computer, but it won't turn on. When he first pushed the power button, the screen flashed and then everything died.

I couldn't do much over the phone, so I went to the customer's office. It was plugged in, everything was hooked up ok, but, sure enough, it refused to turn on. I decided to take it back and promised to deliver a new one as soon as possible. But when I went to pick it up, I couldn't.

Fearful of thieves, the man had fired some 24 inch bolts straight through the box, through the hard drive, motherboard, everything, locking it to his desk.

"Oh," he said, "I thought it was just the TV part that was important. Will my warranty cover this?"
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A friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) bought a brand new Toshiba laptop computer last year since his "old" one was a model from the year before. He worked in the computer services office on campus here at our university. He decided one night that to impress his co-workers he would make his new laptop more decorative. He bought a can of emerald green Krylon spray paint and sprayed his entire computer (screen, mouse, keyboard, casing, and all) with it. He was shocked to find that his computer wouldn't work afterwards and decided the paint must be at fault. So the next day he bought a can of Goo Gone and a bottle of paint thinner and poured them both on his computer, then rinsed it off in the sink.

Again, he was shocked when his computer wouldn't work. He was even more shocked when Circuit City told him they wouldn't refund his money or exchange his computer for a new one.

[kit]

Lol-- I equate this with people who are uber book smart and have no common sense. I have a couple of friends, and hate to admit it sometimes myself, who are this way. It just makes my life better for it as I get to laugh with them about our bone headed mistakes. Not that have ever done anything that stupid. I did once drive around a gas station trying to get the pumps on thinking they were all somehow defective. Finnaly the clerk came out and said I had to turn the lever down on the side. I laughed and asked how long were you guys laughing at me? He said after the second Pump. In my defence it had been years since I used a pump that had a lever on the side and not the front (small town gas station in northern Illinois).

[Bummer Knees]

I remember when my daughter decided to paint her cell phone with finger nail polish.

Didn't work afterwards.

She learned a hard lesson.

[Still in Limbo]

Thanks for the Laughs Builder!!