I used to imagine the poor mechanics listening skeptically to a young clueless driver saying "I swear, mister, it was making this awful noise just a minute ago...!" I wouldn't have believed her either. Then I started in end-user support.
I have implicitly believed those stories ever since. I tell some hapless users that their machines saw me coming and immediately cleaned up their act. I'm mostly kidding, but how else to explain it when it happens so often? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Dorothy Nevill */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 13:30 My favorite is when someone is repeatedly getting an error, but when they call me over and without doing anything differently, the error magically goes away. I always said this was because the computer knows that I simply won't stand for such insubordination and it knows that I know where the off switch is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
