Overheard in My Livingroom #1

Me: Yea, I'm having a little trouble with my connection.  It appears that my router isn't pulling an IP address.
Comcast: Could you please try rebooting your cable modem?
Me: I've rebooted the modem and router twice.
Comcast: Could you please try rebooting your computer?
Me: Which one?
Comcast: silence

Ever notice how the problem always goes away within 10 minutes of calling in, even though they swear its nothing on their end?

Overheard at the Office #5

Well, you know what they say.
What do they say?
Something ridiculous, I forget what.
Who says that?
Larry the Cable Guy.
You take life advise from Larry the Cable Guy?

Overheard at the Office #4

A colleague was installing Axys3 on a clients machine.  This is (or was, we're down to our last financial client, and they don't use it. So I'm not sure anymore) a fairly standard application with our financial clients.  The installer would proceed through, but then throw an error right at the end.  He tried a couple times, same results, then asked me to help.  I told him that he should start by disabling UAC on the machine, because this was a common source of grief with this application.  He turned to me and asked what is UAC?

What is UAC?  I've just watched you acknowledge a UAC dialog box 3 times since you called me over. Do you even look at what you're saying yes to?

Overheard in the Classroom #1

I can't remember what the piece of software was that I was giving the guy a copy of, but this is true recap of how the conversation went.  Keep in mind that this guy was a senior in the IA program.  The program was given to him in a .rar archive.

Him: So how do I install this?
Me: Unpack the archive and run setup.exe
Him: How do I do that? Windows can't open the file.
Me: Download 7zip
Him: Winzip7?
Me: No, 7zip.
Him: Winzip7?

Lets just skip over how long this back and forth went on.

Finally he opens up a browser and Googles Winzip7.  Interestingly enough, 7zip was one of the first couple hits.  I pointed to it and screamed "That one!"  At this point, class started so I don't know how much more pain and suffering was involved in the installation of the program.  But after class, he said he got it installed.