>Medical questions at parties used to be answered with "take off all your
>clothes and I'll examain you" ( I never dared - some of my friends might
>have done just that!)
>Is there a computer equivalent? ;-)))
>Mary
I sometimes say "sorry, I'm not very good on problems of that sort, I'm a
specialist in ........ (something they hopefully can't understand or can be
turned into a general conversation topic). I feel as helpless/infuriated
as you do. I always call the supplier/engineer/software support when this
happens."
Alternatively, I scare the s**t out of them with a few computer horror
stories about what MIGHT happen to their computer, to impress on them how
trivial their problem is compared to the stuff I normally deal with.
These strategies would seem to be generic enough to be used by
practitioners of medicine/computing/car mechanics/politics/etc.
Bob Sugden
(Still here)
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