My mother has just gotten a “Your Windows program isn’t working,” phone call. She likes to keep them on the line, apparently, so her half of the conversation is going like this:
“Hello?”
“Who is this?”
“Oh *really*?”
“My computer is already on!”
“Oh no! What are you going to do about it?”
“Are you sure? That’s astonishing, because I don’t use Windows. I use Ubuntu.”
“It’s a different operating system. See, the thing is, Windows really *sucks*, so I don’t use it.”
(Long pause, she reports in a whisper.)
“He hung up on me!”
<3 my mom. :)
(x-posted from
The Essential Kit)