Sunday 4 November 2012

Technology ...

Last week my wife sat on the printer/scanner/photocopier.
Quite what she was trying to do, I hesitate to ask!
She was uninjured but ...




Unable to cope with life without such hardware, St. Anley searches the world-wide-interweb for an economic replacement.
It arrives promptly the following morning.
It says ‘wireless’ on the box.
"That's exciting!" thinks St. Anley.
He carefully unpacks the machine and checks the contents as per the enclosed documentation.

Yes, it’s all their ...

 

He then spends a couple of hours installing the ink, filling the paper tray and pressing various buttons to try to find ‘network setup’ in the menu on the LCD screen.

Achieving nothing, he makes one of those very expensive telephone calls to the help-line.
Tracey answers ...
 



“What’s on the screen?”she asks.

“It’s blank,” replies St. Anley..

“Have you plugged it into the mains?”

But it’s WIRELESS, isn’t it?


2 comments:

Le Sanglier said...

Tracey gets around. I admire that in a professional woman. I don't believe your wife sat on it. I think you are making that up. Tracey doesn't believe it either. I know becuase she and I went to lunch the other day and she told me so.

Colin said...

Oh, yes she did!
I acknowledge it was an accident; (alcohol was involved,) but it is all absolutely true.