It runs in the family

One day a father and son duo came into the store with a few needs and wants. Here are simply a few of the things that were said.

"Does this soundcard work as a modem?" The father confidently asked.

Kid asks “do you know how to zero a computer?”. “Umm what do you mean?” I replied?
It ended up that he just wanted to know how to reformat.

The dad said “Do you guys have memory sticks?” confident that he was talking about hard drives or memory i said “yea” He said “I only have about 4 gigs”. He than began to say that if he had a new memory stick, his computer would run about 400 times faster.”

Fat Man In A Little Truck

One day as I sat at my register reading up on the latest games when I looked I was amazed at what pulled up in the parking lot. A man in a truck. This truck looked like nothing I had ever seen. This rust and dent covered truck was only about three and a half feet tall. Naturally I laughed, like any normal human being would. But little did I know what was about to happen. An old Fat angry man busted in the door making a B line straight for the back table, saying “ I want to talk to a tech”. He ran like an overstuffed penguin with a cane in one hand. I tried to stop him assuring him that I was a tech. He threw down a piece of paper with a few random words scrabbled on it and said “What does this mean”. Having absolutely no idea what he was talking about I began to ask him a few simple questions. He than began to rant and rave about how he had worked day and night trying to get this stuped hard drive working and how no one in the store was smart enough to help him. He then began to become so angered that he started to dance waving his arms in the air. (can you picture an over fattened angry penguin doing that? Well thats what it looked like)He than began to demand to talk to a nerd. Fearing for my life I yelled at Richard in the back to see if he could figure out what the man was talking about. Walking up Richard said “calm down” and than began to try and figure out what exactly the problem was. He was so excited about his problem and talking so fast and loud, that my manager could not even tell him how to fix it. Finally he told the frantic old man “Be quiet” and explained how to solve the problem.

Quickie

A guy came in frantically like a rabid starving squirrel with ADD looked at one motherboard, I looked up at him and said ill be with you in a minute. The man looked at me, looked at the board, then turned around and walked out of the store. As he made his way through the parking lot he started running. And he ran. Until he was out of sight. Surprisingly he came back in about 45 minutes later full of questions.

PS2 + DB9 = PS9

An old man that was about 60 or so wobbled up to me and asked if we had any cards with extra PS9 connectors. Baffled by his awesome wisdom, I asked myself “what is a PS9 connector and why haven't I heard of it?” “PS9 do you have any cards that have PS9 connectors on them..?” The man repetitively asked, They are for my mouse and keyboard. “Ohh” I thought to myself “he is talking about those really old mouse and keyboard ports”. So I told him “no, we don't have those” Convinced that we did he continued on. And finally he decided to say “am I calling them the right thing”. As it turned out, he just wanted a card with multiple USB ports on it. I came to the conclusion that he had merely confused the PS2 and the DB9 connector types and came up with PS9. I mean hay if you cant remember what something is called why not take two completely random things and mix their names together. Makes perfect sense I guess.