An unfailingly polite lady called to ask for help with a
Windows installation that had gone terribly wrong.
Customer: "I brought my Windows disks from work to
install them on my home computer." (Training stresses that we are
"not the Software Police," so I let the little act of piracy
slide.)
Tech Support: "Umm-hmm. What happened?"
Customer: "As I put each disk in it turns out they
weren't initialized."
Tech Support: "Do you remember the message exactly,
ma'am?"
Customer: (proudly) "I wrote it down. 'This is not a
Macintosh disk. Would you like to initialize it'?"
Tech Support: "Er, what happened next?"
Customer: "After they were initialized all the disks
appeared to be blank. And now I brought them back to work, and I can't read
them in the A: drive; the PC wants to format them. And this is our only set
of Windows disks for the whole office. Did I do something wrong?"
