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My parents built their house when I was 18 months old. Right after they poured the concrete slab for the foundation, my dad.....the most sentimental man alive decided he wanted to preserve one tiny baby footprint in the floor of the house I’d grow up in.
He carried me down the ladder into the fresh concrete pit, all proud and emotional.
“Look at this, buddy!” he said excitedly. “We’re gonna put your little foot right here so you can always know this house was built for you.”
My mom was up top yelling down, “Be careful with him! That concrete is still wet!”
Dad just chuckled and replied, “Relax honey, I’ve got him. This is a father-son moment!”
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I work IT help desk for a mid-sized company. Most of my calls are password resets and printer issues. Occasionally, something happens that I have to write down immediately or I won't believe it happened.
This one came in on a Monday morning.
"IT, this is Marcus, how can I help you?"
"Yes, hi, my computer isn't working."
Standard opener. "Okay, can you describe what's happening?"
"It's just not working."
"Is it not turning on, or—"
"It's on. The screen is on. But it's not working."
I asked him to walk me through what he was trying to do.
"I'm trying to open my email."
"Okay, and what happens when you click on Outlook?"
Pause. "What do you mean, click on it?"
This was the moment I should have recognized what kind of call this was going to be. I did not recognize it fast enough.
"Is there an Outlook icon on your taskbar, or on the desktop?"
"There are a lot of little pictures on the screen."
"Okay. Do any of them say Outlook, or have an envelope on them?"
"Hold on." Long pause. "There's one that looks like an O."
"That might be it. Go ahead and click that."
"With what?"
I took a quiet breath. "With your mouse."
"I don't have a mouse."
"Is there a touchpad on the laptop?"
"It's not a laptop."
"Okay, so it's a desktop. Is there a mouse plugged into it?"
"There's a lot of wires."
I asked him to describe the wires. He described what sounded like a keyboard cable, a monitor cable, and a power cable. No mouse.
"It looks like your mouse may be missing," I said. "In the meantime, you can use the keyboard to navigate. Press the Windows key—"
"Which one is that?"
"It should have a little Windows logo on it. Looks like a wavy flag."
"All the keys just have letters."
I paused. "What keyboard are you looking at?"
"My phone keyboard."
There was a very long silence.
"Sir," I said carefully, "are you on a computer right now, or a phone?"
"I'm on my phone. My computer isn't working."
I had been troubleshooting a phone call. For eleven minutes. He had been describing his phone screen to me. The little pictures were apps. The O was Google Chrome.
"What exactly," I said, very calmly, "is wrong with your computer?"
"I don't know. I couldn't get it to work so I called you from my phone."
"Did you try turning it on?"
Pause.
"...Is there a button for that?”
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I worked at Little Caesars for a short period and this one moment still lives in my head rent-free.
We’re in the back proofing dough for the next day’s pizzas. It’s around 7pm and my boss is standing there staring at the trays like they personally offended her. She goes, “Okay, this dough needs to rise for 12 hours.”
Then she pulls out a calculator. Like an actual physical calculator.
I’m watching this and I’m like, “Umm… that’s gonna be 7am tomorrow.”
She looks at me, blinks, then says, “Oh right, right.” She puts the calculator down for two seconds before picking it up again. “Also, the dough expires in 48 hours.”
She starts punching numbers in again.
I’m trying not to laugh and I tell her, “So… that’ll be two days from now.”
She stops, looks at the calculator, looks at me, and says in complete seriousness:
“Huh… that’s kinda weird how that works out, isn’t it?”
I just stood there for a second, covered in flour, staring at this woman who needed a calculator to figure out that 12 hours from 7pm is 7am and 48 hours is two days.
I didn’t say anything else. Just nodded slowly and went back to work.
I quit not long after that.
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