Lady physically puts credit cards in her Wii

[goldenmunkey]

My neighbors which I don't really know to well to begin with, got their kids a Wii for Xmas. They got no games for it, but they did get a Classic Controller as well as an additional Nunchuck Combo and a carrying case. They asked me what games they recommended, and I decided to recommend them the Animal Crossing City Folk/Wii Speak bundle, Wario Land Shake It,Mario Kart Wii, and Super mario Galaxy. I also recommended them some VC games including Super mario World, and Sonic 2 8-bit.

Anywho, the Mom asks me what VC is, and I told her. I told her that all she needed to do was put in her credit card when prompted on the Shop Channel, and get the amount of points she wanted. I also told her what WiiSpeak is, and how to connect her Wii to the internet via an ethernet connection.

Anywho, I got a call today from the mom telling me that the Wii is not working. I asked what was wrong and you won't believe it.........

SHE PHYSICALLY PUT 3 CREDIT CARDS INTO THE DISC SLOT.
HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Also while putting the Wii Speak on top of her sensor bar, she apparently cracked it open. Just ugh. I told her she has to cancel her cards and call Nintendo for a 75USD repair, and now she expects ME to pay for this. Her husband is on my side of the issue, but she is steaming at me right now. Seriously, she put in 1, and thought that that one could not be accepted, so she kept putting them in and they will not come out. I might try to remove them tomorrow with her hubby while she is away on a business trip.

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I honestly do not know what to think about this...

 

[chatolandia]

Uh OH!!


***Runs to get the credit card of Wii***

 

[vamp]

How stupid are some people? Is this woman that technologically illiterate? I can't believe someone actually did that.

 

[IceFier]

Sorta reminds me of the person who called tech support to complain that the cup holder in his computer stopped working.

 

[yeahman21]

Cup holder? What was that one about?

 

[techboywi]

Cup holder? What was that one about?

The "Cup Holder" was the tray of the CD-ROM drive

 

[jackry]

I fully believe this. People are damn but I have a hard time believing it was 3 cards.

oh does anybody know were to get that fucking board w/ or w/o the whole fit kit?

 

[trawler69]

When I used to work with gaming machines we had a machines that gave change. At one time we had £1 notes and £1 coins in circulation at the same time. People were forever jamming the machine up by putting coins on the tray that took the notes and pushing it in. This was despite the big notice not to and the coin slot next to it that said £1 COINS.

 

[hothunk222]

HAhAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[IceFier]

Hmm..what other funny ones have I endountered...

The general manager's computer had to be COMPLETELY restored because of all the porn viruses on it.

The e-mail server crashed and couldn't be restarted because the accounting rep NEVER deleted an e-mail and fried the harddrive.

The controller was in a rush to get a new employee set up, and didn't want to wait the extra day for IT to do it, so she set him up identically to herself...including access to employee and customer information.

A CSR complained that her computer was too slow...after she installed about 20 different non-work related programs that needed massive amounts of memory.

Another CSR complained that he could barely see what was on his screen...after he had changed the settings on the monitor AND added a glare-screen.

Yet another CSR complained that she couldn't see what was on her flat-panel moniter...she had it at an angle so she could see it from the filing cabinets, but not her chair.

The general manager kept all his passwords on a single sheet of paper in his desk.

The general manager and production supervisor needed their passwords reset at least every other month.

To make other people's jobs easier, I was given computer access rights just below IT level...in other words, above the controller and GM.

The accounting rep took up about 2/3 of her day doing daily invoicing and payroll. When she got "overwhelmed" those were switched over to me. It usually took me about an hour to do both.

 

[trawler69]

Had a complaint that a Juke box only worked when the weather was cold. Turned out it was wired into the electric heating circuit.

Had a fire alarm that went off when ever a particular person walked down a corridor. Turned out she was very heavy and was bending a floorboard and a nail in it was shorting out a cable as she walked over it.

 

[G-Lexington]

I was copying my resume at Kinko's back in the day, and I saw a clerk helping a woman with the copier. He said, "This copier is actually really simple to use. All you have to do is tell it what to do, and it'll take care of it for you." She said, "Really?" then bent down towards the machine and said, loudly, "COPY BOTH SIDES, PLEASE!"

Lex

 

[trawler69]

While working at a Garage I spotted a woman about to top her radiator up with oil. I stopped her and told her that was the radiator. She was really snotty and told me not to tell her where to put the oil in HER car. I let her get on with it. She was a bit sheepish a few minutes later when she asked why her oil level light hadn't gone out after she topped it up.

 

[IceFier]

Once had a supervisor tell me that having EVERYTHING for our computer system for over 1,000 users (other than the OS to actually start the individual pc's) running off a single server 500 miles away or more was not part of the reason the system was so slow.

 

[thermodynamics]

You guys have such great tech idiot stories! I've been lucky to be around fairly smart, tech-savvy people when I've served as an informal "IT" guy.

 

[trawler69]

Got called up at 2:00 am by a headmistress saying she couldn't shut the security system up at her school. I talked her through it and nothing seemed to be working so I had to drive to site 40 mins away. When I got there she was quite irate, I asked for her code, typed it in and everything went quiet. She hadn't been watching what I did so asked how I did that. I showed her and she looked very sheepish. On further inquiry it turns out she had been typing her code into the fire alarm. (No she didn't usually set or unset the system, there were extenuating circumstances)

 

[IceFier]

Heheh...got a funny one...

When I was taking classes to get my degree, I changed to screensaver to marquee with the message "Wait until you learn how to do this". I couldn't have timed it better if I was psychic. The woman who sat at that desk for the next (intro) class turned to the computer to do the assigned work just as the ss became ative. She called the instructor because she thought the message was from the computer.

 

[gdude30]

Haha...

Wow.

That's a first.

I mean I know there are some people who have trouble putting in credit card information and getting confused about that.

But putting credit cards in the wii.

What the hell.

That's just..

Really funny. Just wait til someone thinks a wii is a fancy new ATM XD

 

[vamp]

Try explaining why a cd full of shortcuts to photos will not work at a walgreens kiosk to a soccer mom.... try it... I dare you.

You wanna know why I'm so fucked up in the head? THATS WHY!

"Maam those are shortcuts, not the actual file"
"Well I don't understand why your computer wont read them. I put it into my computer at home and open them from the disk all the time."
"Because this is a shortcut that opens the actual file on your computer, not from the disk"
"I'm double clicking on THIS FILE right here and it opens the picture up so why doesn't yours?"
"BECAUSE IT IS A SHORT CUT!"
"well it's obviously not a shortcut if it doesn't work like its supposed to!"
"IT IS WORKING LIKE ITS SUPPOSED TO!"

OMG, u have my sympathy. I used to work as an assistant computer technician at my college. I used to get cases like this from students on a daily basis. Pissed me off every time. I remember one student who couldn't get why she couldn't access her assignment, and i bit my tongue so hard, to keep myself from cussing her out, that it started bleeding. I FUCKING HATE THE STUPIDITY OF SO MANY PEOPLE!!!

 

[cityboy-stl]

You have to be extremely literal and specific when dealing with people who know little about technology.

A friend of mine, to whom operating a safety pin is a major technological achievement, came over to do my house to his taxes on TurboTax. He thought it would be fun to use the computer. I knew it would be a disaster. I first had to teach him how to use the mouse. I explained that you use the mouse to point at what you want to select and then click the button. He physically picked up the mouse in his hand and pointed it at the screen and started pushing the buttons. I fell off the chair laughing so hard. Then he says "I did what you told me. What's so funny?".

We started over being very, very, very specific about how to do things. It took for fucking ever but we did get the taxes done. The following year he went to H. & R. Block.