If you're reading this blog, you're probably like me and have at least *some* technical skills.  While I am nowhere near qualified to run an IT enterprise, I know enough to fool the average Joe. 

So I'm probably not the only out there to have become "technical support" for a growing list of friends and family.  I have set up wireless routers for a couple of my neighbors, and it always makes me smile over the way they think how amazing my mad technical skills are.

The other day we were having a neighborhood happy hour in somebody's front yard.  One of the people for whom I set up a wireless router told me a story about going over to her mom's house that very morning.  Apparently, her mother bought a new laptop and was trying to get on the ol' interweb.  Her mom was furious that she couldn't get the browser on her new fancy and expensive laptop to connect to anything.  My neighbor asked her mom, "Well, where's your wireless router?"  At which point her mom looked at her with the same look you'd get from George W. Bush if you asked him to divide 3,670,879 by 47,546. 

So my other neighbor said, "Chris, you need to open a business for people like us.  Just be brutally honest and call it, 'You're a dumbass - Give me a $100 and I'll fix your shit.'"

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:44:56 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)      Comments [0]  Dumbass | Humor | Tech Support