The Proximity Fix

[Beernik]

We've all had that moment when you ask someone to help you fix something and the minute they walk over to look at the problem the problem magically vanishes. My wife and I had one of these moments today.

We drove separately to a bar for brunch this morning because she was going to go to her shop and work afterwords and I would be heading back home. We get to the bar and she tells me that her radio stopped working. The tuner, the CD player, and the auxillery jack all don't work. She said it acted liked it was working but no sound and the tuner wouldn't even show a station.

So we go eat and have a few beers and mammosas. A couple hours go by. We go back out to her car and she shows me what the radio is doing. She switches it from the tuner to the CD player to the auxillery and back to the tuner using the steering wheel buttons.

I reach out to fiddle with the tuner knob and just barely touch it when the radio finds a station and starts playing the chorus of Nick Jonas' Jealous.

So I started petting the radio and said "See? You just have to touch her. Christine gets jealous."

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Beer Magic !!

 

[DrunkleJon]

Thats how I fix computers at work most of the time. Approach person with problem. Say, "Show me." and then it works. I think showing someone else how things dont work makes them pay more attention to the process and then they do it correctly and dont forget the step they were skipping.

That or things realize you are ready to give them a little percussive maintenance.

 

[hunter_le five]

Thats how I fix computers at work most of the time. Approach person with problem. Say, "Show me." and then it works. I think showing someone else how things dont work makes them pay more attention to the process and then they do it correctly and dont forget the step they were skipping.

Same here. Apparently our computer systems never work right, unless I'm in the room looking over their shoulder. I think we need to change my title to "the software whisperer".

I always just chalk it up to a "ID-Ten-T" error.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Same here. Apparently our computer systems never work right, unless I'm in the room looking over their shoulder. I think we need to change my title to "the software whisperer".

I always just chalk it up to a "ID-Ten-T" error.

I tend to use PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer) instead

 

[TxBrew]

People would be surprised to learn how often "Turning it off, then turning it back on" works.

I get so tired of typing that all the same.

 

[hunter_le five]

People would be surprised to learn how often "Turning it off, then turning it back on" works.

I get so tired of typing that all the same.

People always get offended when I suggest that.

I'm not being sarcastic or condescending; when all else fails, it usually works.

 

[brew_ny]

always just chalk it up to a "ID-Ten-T" error.

or an I/O error Idiot Operator

 

[jamespz03]

I call those layer 8 issues.