You’re at the in-laws or a friend’s house. Someone mentions that their computer is broken. Do you go and fix it just to get out of a conversation you don’t want to be in?
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John Biggs
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January 31, 2009
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I’ll do, pretty much, anything that will get me out of boring conversation.
So, yes, I’ve jumped on the opportunity to tech support something on a number of occasions. I’ll especially jump on it if my in-laws are involved.
Well…. its complicated with me.
I’d say yes, but I usually agree to tech support even if it isn’t really an escape. Pretty much its only my friends and family who ask, so I willingly agree even if it was out of nowhere and I wasn’t doing anything.
Granted though, I AM pretty damn bored at home so maybe it is an escape and I don’t even really realize it.
B-b-b-but be careful about rickety, crazy old systems. I mean the ones with discontinued software, antivirus that expired in June 2002, etc.
A few keystrokes and you may “own” the system and its myriad problems. You’ll be forever listening to your mother-in-law bray about how “everything worked fine until you touched it!”