Well for instance you take one of your hubby's friends computers to work on. He says he cannot type in any sort of edit box. So you turn on his already auto running chat program to see if you can type there and if you can compose email. Well it previews his email and the last one it was on is a reply from a woman he was talking to where he described his preferences :o He is big into the online dating sites.
I can honestly say after getting a load of that email I may never be able to look him in the eye again :eek: It was much more than I ever wanted to know. Of course when I glanced at the email and told Jon what it looked to be he insisted I read it to him :rolleyes: Now we are both scarred for life.

Jons other friend picked up his computer a few days ago. Our apartment is very small and I had made scampi that day. He said when he took the computer home and turned it on he could smell garlic and spices lol. His computer tower is twice as tall as a normal one. It is a monster. I told him I thought he was compensating for something We fixed that for him for nothing. I worked on it for 5 hours that day and Jon worked on it for two. Called him about 9pm and he didnt want to come and get it. Said he was tired Well so was I! I told him to come get that big monster out of my livingroom or I was gonna charge him rent and trust me he couldnt afford my rates. They came and got it that night. If I bust my butt getting it done in one day and for free they can alteast come get it out of my way. I have enough of my own stuff cluttering up the place. I dont need anyone elses making it worse. Besides ..it was all a big hurry up job to get it done fast then they dont even wanna pick it up that night. Yeah right!

Hee Hee! I used to do that for a partial living and it was the customer (dis)appreciation that retired me from it. I was happier unemployed. I only charged $35/hr and put in tons of my own hours and they balked at having to pay "anything".

I don't do computer work for nobody anymore, especially for friends. More fun know working with food.

I can identify, janie... I'm at work right now staring-down 13 boxes containing 1300 folders that I typed and prepared lables for. At the time I was asked to do them way back around Thanksgiving, I was asked to set aside two other projects I was working on to get this done quickly. Well, I pushed to complete them, they sat in my cubicle taking up space for weeks. I have since moved them to a nearby cabinet simply to get them out from under me- yet still they tower above me. So much for "high-priority RUSH job"!

Been there - done that. Hooked up a computer for a bigwig at his home - totally computer illiterate.
Wrote down the instructions of how to connect it (if he wanted to move it), every component, how to turn it on, every direction for the spreadsheet he wanted, every possible thing imaginable. Mde backup spreadsheets with formulas in case he lost one. Worked on that project for HOURS AND HOURS. I was smart enough to write the instructions BEFORE I went to his house.
He lived over an hour away from me.
Everything is done - he is happy.
I am home - washing my hair - phone rings.
His computer is DEAD. Won't go on.
Now he is livid.
Screaming at ME - I did something wrong and I was to get there IMMEDIATELY and fix it.
What - In my towel with a towel on my head? Don't think so.
I know I did nothing wrong - it's on his end.
Fifteen minutes of fighting with me - because I was wrong.
I threatened to hang up if he didn't shut up.
And I meant it - told him his project will never be done and his proposal can sit on his computer till hell freezes over if he opened his mouth one more time.
Silence.
So I told him I would walk him through everything.
Started with what he did, if he saved it, how he shut down.
How he attempted to start it up. He followed all my instructions to a tee. Seemed like he did everything right.
Long story short - the idiot shut off the surge when he shut down his computer and never turned it back on.
I got a huge tree/plant and the biggest apology in the world.
gotta love 'em.............

Goodness! I thought I had heard everything.