Ok… for the very last time!
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So… you’ve gone and done somthing stupid online. Let me make a pre-emptive strike here and say it on the record:
I don’t care what you did to it, how spyware infested it may be, how many porn dialers you have installed (and your phone bill is crushing you), or how slow it’s gotten. It can erupt in a green ball of unholy fire with demons dancing on your monitor for all I care.
Remember when I helped set your machine up way back when? Remember that little chat we had about NOT TRUSTING attachments to email. Do you recall how I stressed how important this was?
I’m pretty sure we went over downloading and running files from websites too. While I’m sure that free porn viewer looked pretty damn spiffy on the web, it’s not my fault that the phone company wants several thousand dollars from you for all those charges to a Nigerian 1-900 number that your PC made.
Let us not forget when I attempted (in vain, apparently) to inform you that you’d need to maintain the computer, updating drivers, anti-virus, and most importantly, the damn OS itself! I told you that its not like a friggin’ coffee maker! You can’t just turn in on when you want to use it and forget about it the rest of the time.
You did this to yourself.
I’ve decided that I’m not your computer 911. Sure, I know a few things about them, but that’s because I sat down and read a book, did some research, figured it out. I certainly wasn’t born with this knowledge. It’s time that you did the same.
The way I see it, you have two choices: take some responsibility and do a little research to figure it out, or put the computer away and never EVER touch one again.
I’d prefer the later of the two.
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* Oh… and Tom… this isn’t directed at you (I will help you fix your router!).
So ……. about the brakes on my car that needed fixing…… 😉
1Hey, you can capitalize on this. A simple fee schedule for fixing problems as follows:
Problem Fee to Fix
Minor Virus 1 case of Beer
2Major Virus or Spyware 5th of Crown
Really Major Virus Tank of Gas
General Stupidity All of the above
You get the general idea, this could be a real windfall when you add in some of the specific goodies that only you could come up with. Things like mowing the lawn, picking up doggie doo doo, Hell, you got a potential gold mine there.
Hey, just noticed that your posting time setting is already on Daylight Savings Time! Can ya fix that
3I can (and have) fixed that… but only because It’s my site. If it was anyone else’s damn site, they’d be on their own!
Yeah… I’m cranky… but I’m tired of being “that computer guy who will fix everything, no matter how stupid the actions of the user are”.
Figure it out kids, I did.
4I sure hope this does not apply to your poor old mother in law, after all you are my favorite son in law. LOL
5LOL
6Awww what a nice guy! CinCin will be grateful, very grateful!
But on another note ………I have the lil white bumps all over my bum………..is that a virus you can take care of heheheh LMAO! All joking aside…..kids there was a time where Tom knew nothing about computers……..its called reading kids. Trial and error then fixing the errors……..Bio you have been very gracious in answering the questions I have posed to you over the years to help me over the learning curve. I for one am so very grateful for that…..THANKS LOADS