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

[Kansas Territory]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> Lunch was fun!!
>
> Before going, I searched the MS support site for anything to do with 
> duplicate emails in Outlook 2003. I found a legitimate Knowledge Base 
> page with the solution to an almost identical problem. I printed it to 
> PDF then altered the PDF in Illustrator. Under 'Resolution' I changed 
> the existing paragraph to read "To prevent duplicate e-mail messages 
> from occurring, kindly ask Scott and Mark to stop sending duplicates 
> of every e-mail they send you and to stop claiming to receive two of 
> every e-mail message you send them."
>
> Well, when we got to the restaurant Rob started right away with the 
> computer problems and how the IT guy from Dell was leading him all 
> over the place without any success. It took everything for Scott and I 
> not to blurt out laughing. I handed Rob the sheet, saying a PC tech I 
> know had sent it to me. He started reading it, and kept proclaiming 
> that yes, his system does this and yes, his computer does that. Then 
> he got to the resolution. At this point Scott and I lost it. Rob 
> jumped out of his seat cursing, threw the paper at us, called us every 
> name in the book, and then cracked up laughing with us. By this point, 
> everyone in the restaurant was looking at him, so what does he do? He 
> moves to the front, and loud enough for everyone to hear, he explains 
> to the entire restaurant what we've been doing to him. Now you have to 
> know Rob and how he can talk to a crowd, by the time he was done the 
> entire restaurant was in stitches. A few of them even came to 
> congratulate Scott and I. But the icing on the cake is that the 
> manager, still laughing, came and told us our lunch was on the house.
>
> So go figure. We torment a friend for a day and get a free meal out of 
> it.


LOL  a most excellent story  !!!     :-)


Kansas