ATM: ‘Welcome’. Card in. PIN typed in. Oops, instant BLANK SCREEN. Keypad doing nuttin’. Hmmm.
Looking, looking, then up came the NCR logo white on black. For a loooooong time.
‘Have I broken it? I muttered. I went into the bank and explained my plight.
A teller went and had a look: ‘Oh it’s just re-booting, it won’t be long.’
Um, OK. Re-booting?
Waiting, waiting — held hostage because my card was in the machine. Then, to my surprise, look what I saw:
Windows! Er, not my skill set.
I went into the bank again and said, ‘Hey, look, I know people who use Windows… I haven’t got that sort of time to waste. Can you open the little hatch and get my card for me?’
Sure thing.
I walked away, leaving the bank to get their machine working again. Maybe. Good luck with that. NMP (Not my problem.)
Life’s too short to wait for a computer, eh? (Did you know those things ran Windows? I didn’t.)
See comments for more examples. Add yours, if you want.
Talking of error messages, here’s the light-hearted ‘trained monkeys’ one I referred to the other day from YouTube (click it to enlarge):
More quirky error messages … this one from Vanity fair when I mistyped the URL for the Sarah Palin profile this morning:
Cool! Good attitude. – P
Hey I’ve set up a photo album for these on thePaepae’s Facebook page … have at it!
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