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This one needs an honourable mention in the telephone-tech-support Hall of Infamy So I field a call today, Sunday(!), and it's a mate whose computer is playing up. Can I help him out? What can I say? Unfortunately I'm just rubbish at snappy comebacks. That special moment; when the lizard brain is shrieking - 'get under a rock. Quick!' ; my in-grained schoolboy politeness totally prevents me from saying 'I'm so sorry, I'm just getting a taxi to the station - we're going sailing for a week in Scotland' and leaves me blurting the fatal "oh, sure, I'll help you out" I suppose that really was the instant referred to in the title, but for an even worse example read on... My mate is an okay guy, alright? He's forty-something, single, and quite intelligent. He read Economics at a well-known University; red-brick but with an excellent reputation; and took away an Honours degree in Economics which led eventually to a post in the flavour of the day Australian government. At some point he also sat a Master's degree in basic and bullshit and it has never gone away. To be continued...
