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Well just wanted to share a little story of a user that I have worked with for now 8 years. Today is my proud moment of hard work paying off. A little back story this user had little or no experience with computers when we met. One day I got a call:

User: “I have a problem.”

Me: “Uh ok, what is going on?”

User: “I spilled water on my laptop.”

Me: “Ok, ah well how much. Like a cup?”

User: “Yeah, or two.”

Me: “Cr*p, ok.”

User: “An entire vase of flower water…”

Me: “Explicit*”

User: “I didn’t mean it, sorry.”

Me: “Well…ok. At least we can dry it and try taking it apart…”

User: “I have already dried it with a towel. Tried powering it on a bunch…”

Me: “Sh*T!!! …what is a bunch???”

User: “Oh and my paper was on the for tomorrow…30 times? Holding the power down and it kept beeping at me, ok!”

Me: “You didn’t think that beeping meant anything?”

User: “NO!”

Me: “Ok, (Sigh).”

User: “What do you think?”

Me: “Did you check your email? I think my backup ran last night, you have that for now.”

User: “Whew, that works.”

Needless to say that laptop was toast by the time I got to it. Water was still pouring out of it. I don’t normally talk with my users this way. The user is my now wife and I luckily setup backups to a email account for a small folder “just in case.”

Flash forward to tonight seven years later and I come home to:

Wife: “So I have a problem…”

Me: “Ah ok?”

Wife: “I found my cell phone in a puddle. Don’t worry though. I removed the SD card, left everything powered off, took out the battery. Then dried it with paper towels and put into a bowl of dried rice.”

Me: “Ok, I love you.”

Moral of the story. You might not be born a geek but you can teach others the way and get others to adapt. Also never buy your college sweetheart flowers. It will come back to haunt you. I am happy to say my wife has picked up things over the years and can hold her own. Wondering how others have done with their other half and technology. Have they adopted or shun it like the devil? Possibly a bad egg user that turned the corner and surprised you?

Considering it was almost 30 minutes I am happy with the OtterBox!

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User doing good?! This isn’t good! The longer they do good the bigger the S#!& storm when it hits.

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Nice, job well done!

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Now if only I could get my other half to stop breaking everything IT she touches. If I’m IT Jesus, shes the antichrist.

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Best line I’ve ever read. Bar none.

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Gotta agree… I’m already planning on talking to someone about my ‘other half’. I’ll just leave the IT part out of it…

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Brilliant!!

My other 'alf is the totally opposite to me IT wise.

When I show her how to do something, before I even start she says “I’ll probably forget this and you’ll need to show me again!”

Nothing like wanting to learn, huh ?!?

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My SO has been buiding computers since she was 2 as her dad works in IT like me! :smiley:

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I just have to beat my friends and gf over the head with computer parts hoping they learn what they are through osmosis.

I tried to learn my text books through osmosis by leaving them under my pillow. Needless to say it didn’t work…

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My ex and I never talked technology because every time I did talk technology with her she only got mad because I kept correcting all her mistakes. She would say windows 10 but mean office 2010 and then sometimes she would say windows 7 and mean office 2010.

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My gf has actually attempted to add a networked printer to her PC recently… there’s hope!

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I can see SWMBO’s eyes actually glaze over if I discuss tech with her.

Stick a picture of a light hovercraft under her nose however …

:Bliss:

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My wife has little to no patience when it comes to IT or trying to fix and issue. She gets mad at me when I ask her, “Well did you try restarting it.” She thinks that any time an error pops up I should be able to read the error and immediately know how to fix the problem, even when the error is within programs that I never ever use. My mom is the same way, no patience and no desire to learn either, in a world where everything does or will soon be connected to the internet. My mom always just throws her hands up and says, I don’t understand. Drives me nuts. The other day she asked me how hard would it be for her to set-up Netflix. She is my mom though so what can I do. I will probably have to set up her account for her when she comes up for Thanksgiving lol.

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That made me so happy.

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Update: The LG G3 is AOK this morning! She done good people! Very lucky as the phone is only a month old.

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My girlfriend doesn’t even want to try understanding anything remotely technical (or scientific or mathematical). I try to explain things as simply as possible, but her eyes just glaze over and everything goes over her head.

This morning when I told her that the dog’s collar broke, I got the same look. “I don’t understand how that could happen.”

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I am happy my SO is a quick learner, especially in these kinds of situations.

Him: Hun (insert baby cousins name here) spilled milk all over my laptop. I tried cleaning it with some q-tips and took it apart to dry.

Me: That’s a great start (I was actually surprised he got that far). Did you also use some WATER to get the sticky milk out while it was taken apart and let it dry BEFORE you turned it on again?

Him: Is that why the fan smells burnt and is running SUPER high?

I love him. I really do. But even when we tried to have a convo in my office, my boss stopped us mid convo and goes “Awe your wife is a bigger nerd than you are!”

My hubby didn’t take to that very well…lol

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My better half is amazing with computers. She knows stuff up and down and it only took 2 days of teaching from me and she was an expert…now if I could just get her to exist…

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My other half is great with computers and programming all day long. I think that part of his brain shuts off when he gets home. I build/install all components/computers/electronics at home.