Oh my god reminded me of a story when I worked computer repair. Busy day, line of people waiting for me. Similar, mother came in and brought her sons computer. Apparently it had "just stopped working" and only showed a black screen. Plugged it into the monitor behind the desk facing out.

I did the ol' pop the ram out, press the power button a couple of times and pop the ram back in. Booted up like a charm.

The computer came out of hibernate - to the most ball slappinest porn ever, and I'm talking like, super hardcore. Anal, bondage, the whole sha-bang. It was only up for about 3 seconds but everyone in line knew.

Said "Well looks like it's working now have a good one", and oh man have I never seen such a combination of utter humiliation and pure rage at her son. Whoever you were kid, I'm sorry - but there's your lesson. If you're doing the dirty and the computer stops working, never have your mom take it in.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I witnessed something like this once. I worked for a pawn shop, wiping and reinstalling Windows on computers they were selling, but occasionally working on one of the counters if they were short staffed.

One day a regular customer brought his PS2 in to trade, so it had to be tested first. The manager took it as a training moment for me and and a few others, and connected it to the main TVs around the store so that we could all see how he checked the system.

The customer had left a rather hardcore DVD in the drive and completely forgotten about it, until it started playing on the big screen, and everyone in the store learned about his preferences.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me that DVD was never retrieved...

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

Oh, no, one of the guys took great pleasure in taking the disc out and handing it to the customer in front of everyone :D