OGDEN NET CAFE - 12 o CLOCK FLASHER
Feb. 24th, 2003 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepdet"Twelve o' clock flasher" being a term I picked up from some comedy routine, used to describe the type of person whose electronic devices all flash 12:00 because they don't know how to set the time.
My Mom was trying to upload a 59MB file for work, and got so disgusted with her AOL connection (and who wouldn't? Yes, she's trying to get broadband) that she drove down the mountain to a netcafe in Ogden, UT, hoping she could get it done there.
She went to their tech help person to ask about the best way to upload a file. He didn't seem to understand what she was asking for some time. He kept telling her she could just look on the web for whatever she needed.
Finally she said, "You know, all that stuff on the web? Someone has to put it there!"
"And you're that person!" he said.
At this point she was so disgusted she said, "Yes. That's right. I'm that person."
At which point he got all excited and said he was honored to meet her, and she absolutely insists he wasn't simply pulling her leg.
My Mom was trying to upload a 59MB file for work, and got so disgusted with her AOL connection (and who wouldn't? Yes, she's trying to get broadband) that she drove down the mountain to a netcafe in Ogden, UT, hoping she could get it done there.
She went to their tech help person to ask about the best way to upload a file. He didn't seem to understand what she was asking for some time. He kept telling her she could just look on the web for whatever she needed.
Finally she said, "You know, all that stuff on the web? Someone has to put it there!"
"And you're that person!" he said.
At this point she was so disgusted she said, "Yes. That's right. I'm that person."
At which point he got all excited and said he was honored to meet her, and she absolutely insists he wasn't simply pulling her leg.
