Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Double-D Backspace

Years ago, I was self-employed, doing outside tech support.  I got a call from a lady at a local business that I couldn't resolve on the phone, so I went to visit.

She stated that her job is to type up the minutes of weekly department meetings, and she was having problems with text disappearing at random times.

I asked her to try and reproduce the conditions where the text disappeared, but everything worked just fine.

I told her to just continue like I wasn't there, and I would watch to see if I could pick up anything.

She typed away for about 15 minutes before her phone rang.

The phone was located far enough away that she had to reach over the keyboard and stretch to answer it.

This lady had very large breasts, I mean DD size.  When she reached for the phone, her right breast mashed down on the backspace key and started erasing her text.

I blushed when I explained the problem to her, but we had a laugh, and reorganized her desk and phone.  No more disappearing text!