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Stupid Friends and Old Computers.
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Posted by: Darky!
Friend: "Clean my computer out for me, dude!"
Me: "Ok, sure, 56$ an hour."
Friend: "You’re kidding right?"
Me: "No."
Friend: "Please? For a friend"
Me: "No."
Friend: "Please?"
Me: "No."
Friend: "Please?
Me: "Fine."
Spend the next 5 minutes hauling 486 from friend’s house
Spend next 10 minutes figuring out Packard Bell CMOS
Spend next 5 minutes formatting
Spend next 10 minutes trying to figure out why a 400$ DVD+RW drive won't read the Packard Bell Master CD
Give up, and spend next 20 minutes copying windows discs from master CD to floppies using secondary, slow, cd-rom
Use Windows 98SE System Disc to boot up to command prompt
Spend next 20 minutes installing windows 3.11
Spend next 5 minutes realizing you just forgot to install DOS 6.22 before installing Windows 3.11
Bang head on desk for 5 minutes
Spend next 5 formatting the drive again
Spend next hour searching for a bootable DOS 6.22 Disk 1
Find disk in disk drawer, labeled "DOS/WINDOWS 3.X/95
Spend next 5 minutes banging head on desk, marveling at your own lack of attention to detail
Spend next 45 minutes installing DOS 6.22 and Win3.11 on computer
Spend next 5 minutes hauling back to friend’s house
Spend next 5 minutes getting yelled at by friend, who only wanted you to delete several documents out of the recycle bin, instead of starting with clean slate
Yeah... That pretty much sums up my day.
I hate stupid people.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Look on the bright side - at least he wouldn't ever bother you again...
Posted by: Chako
I say...you should still charge him. 
Posted by: uh...ok
Or hope he asks again next time. And charge him.
So next time you get paid 56 bucks for right clicking on recycle bin.
-uh...ok
Posted by: ZeRo_MaXwInG
"Clean my computer" can mean several things. Did your friend say that he wanted to delete documents from the Recycle Bin(after you did all that) or is it just your interpretation? First of all, if he said that directly to you, then he know that there was a recycling bin. It shouldn't be hard to figure out to delete them documents since its the same way that he sent them there in the first place.
Posted by: Null Actor
Darky, I recommend this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/388b.shtml
Posted by: Darky!
I've got a bucnh of Think Geek shirts already, but I mite just have to get one of those to spite him.
Posted by: Erekose
heh yes because what other reason were they made
Posted by: Qui Gon-Jinn
wife's computer died yesterday.. was a Celleron 766 running with 512megs ram and 98se.. now it's running 2k.. damn thing BSOD'd while I was out working on a friends mother's truck.. friend recently broke his arm and has yet to regain full use.. so I was doing the hard stuff.. he was supervising.. came back in.. BSOD.. reboot.. NOTHING.. try to install 98 over the top of the old version.. won't go... rescue as much of the wife's doc's and my stored shit as I can.. format.. install 2kpro.. life is good now..
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