The computer in my high school classroom was acting up. After watching me struggle with it, a student explained that my hard drive had crashed. So I called IT. "Can someone look at my computer?"
I asked. "The hard drive crashed."
"We can’t just send people down on your say-so," said the specialist. "How do you know that’s the problem?"
"A student told me."
"We’ll send someone right over."
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A Twitter exchange between an angry customer and an apologetic fast food owner:
Customer: You, I ordered a Pizza & came with no toppings on it or anything. It’s just bread.
Owner: We’re sorry to hear about this!
Customer (minutes later): Never mind, I opened the pizza upside down.
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Trying to explain to our five-year-old daughter how much computers have changed, my husband pointed to our brand-new personal computer and told her that when he was in college, a computer with the same amount of power would have been the size of a house.
Wide-eyed, our daughter asked, "How big was the mouse?”