[X4U] Noise: prank on a PC user (long)

[Crandon David]

That's hilarious. Tell us about lunch...

Dave


On Jan 19, 2005, at 6:12 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> Sorry for the off topic but I just had to share this.
>
> Background: Two of my buddies and I have been friends since grade 
> school. Scott and I are die hard Mac users and use them at home and at 
> work. Rob, although he loves using our Macs, is a PC user due to his 
> job, he's never had a home computer. When Rob mentioned that he was 
> thinking of getting a computer for home, we naturally started showing 
> him the various Macs options he could choose from. We though we had 
> convinced him to get an eMac when he surprised us one day by saying he 
> had ordered a Dell.
>
> Rob received his computer and hooked it up yesterday. The first thing 
> he did once it was up and running was to email the two of us to gloat 
> at how fast his new XP machine was. Scott and I, emailing each other 
> privately, decided to have some fun with Rob. We both replied to his 
> email claiming to have received two identical messages from him. To ad 
> to the fun we sent two identical replies to him. Now Rob, thinking 
> he's done something wrong starts sending us test emails which we keep 
> claiming to have received two of and we make sure to send two copies 
> of every emails we send him. After a while he writes us saying that he 
> tried his brother and another friend and only got one reply from each 
> of them and the problem seems to be isolated to Scott and I. To add to 
> the fun, I send him a single email from my .mac account. then follow 
> up with two from my work account. He's really confused.
>
> We decide to up the fun. I email Scott some party pictures we had 
> taken. Scott replies (twice) to me with CCs to Rob. In the quoted 
> message Scott changes it so that it looks like my original message was 
> also sent to Rob. Now Rob is wondering why he never received the 
> message with the photos. We followed this with messages (two of each) 
> asking him if he was receiving the emails with attachments we were 
> sending (which of course we never actually sent). We could tell from 
> his emails that Rob was getting frustrated. After not hearing from him 
> for awhile he emails us saying that he's been on the phone with Dell 
> and that the tech guy was having him try all sorts of things. (we feel 
> sorry for the IT guy, but at least he's paid by the hour.)
>
> We kept it going all day. I talked to Rob last night, he was so 
> frustrated that he came out and said he should have taken our advice 
> and bought the eMac. I guaranteed him that if he would have purchased 
> a Mac he wouldn't be experiencing these problems.
>
> Scott, Rob and I are meeting for lunch today where we're planning to 
> tell Rob everything. He's usually a good sport about these things, and 
> Scott and I owe him for past pranks he's pulled on us.
>
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