Back to India, it's the same tech woman! "Oh, Mr. Olsen, back so quickly?" She scolds me about storing so many emails, said I had "burst the cabinet, kablam!" but somehow conjured it back onto my desktop. But not back into my active Compuserve software. She sternly told me I would have to start over with a new filing cabinet; the old filing cabinet would sit there like a museum on my desktop, accessible but inert, in a permanent "read-only" condition. Inconvenient, but I was just happy to get it back - my sweet lost emails returned!
With a lighter heart, I opened up Compuserve again, ony it didn't open: I got an error message: "Your Compuserve software is fucked up, if you get this message repeatedly, please reinstall Compuserve."
Son of an assplowing untouchable! I wave my private parts in the direction of Bangalore!
Back to India, this time a guy, for the next hour we installed a new copy of Compuserve, took apart my computer with tweezers and a toothbrush, recited a goodly portion of the Upanishads, STILL got the HOURGLASS when I tried to send an email, and at last my new subcontinent buddy said, "Well Mr. Olsen, thank you so much for your patience [he said this everytime he put me on hold], but all our efforts have been thwarted, we must wait for them to fix the system. Have a wonderful day." And he was gone.
Now I have a filing cabinet on my desktop that I can never add another email to, a naked filing cabinet in my newly downloaded Compuserve software, email I can't send until they "fix the system within 24 hours," and an entire wasted piece of shit Monday.
Thank you, spammers. Suck, blow and die.
Article comments
1 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
god, man, i know i shouldn't laugh but... that was one funny post.
Hehe. I know exactly that frustration, man. When i switched to broadband there was three or four days when NOTHING would do ANYTHING and nobody anywhere in the world seemed to know a damn thing about it. And then suddenly it wouldnt let me go into secure sites and so on. Eventually i had to restore the factory settings. Oh well. Alls well that ends with a funny line or two, as they say.
2 - Justene
but, but, we got an email from you saying you couldn't send email.
3 - Dawn
Technological innovations, it's irony at its most ironic.
I sure hope you are in a better mood when I get home - cheer up, it's only email, not like the site is down and you are dealing with bloodsucking hosting douchebags whose only goal in life is to create misery and rape children. (not that I am mentioning any names though)
4 - Eric Olsen
Thanks all, I am in a slightly better mood because I have now eaten and spent approximately 1/2 hour in a car with a shrieking 8 month-old, and had a chocolate chip cookie shoved into my eye by a 4 year-old. Hence I have better perspective on the relative importance of email in the grand scheme of things.
5 - BB
Crikey, maybe life ain't so bad after all. Thanks for makin' me feel better about myself Eric.
What's that? Misery loves company?
6 - Eric Olsen
Thanks BB, glad to be of service!
7 - Stepahn Upton
I seriously siggest, that we all learn a little bit about the following before u call a tech support, after all its an advantage if u know how to make them happy:
1. Cricket (yea, fckn boring game. & they beat the brits every time on it)
2. Philosophy (Indies are deeply philosphical people. they wrote the first thesis on dualism and acute singularism around 4000 bc.)
3. ballywood (a song & dance movie, thats some 3 hours long!)
4. DemocraZy (sine they are the biggest, they like to rub others nose in sand about advntage of it)
What shouldnt be talked.
1. Pakistan. they hate them. dont know why, think its a muslim vs the rest thinggy.
2. Poverty. million of them there.
3. cast system. something very bad, dont know much. but very bad.
hope it helps LOL