And they teach us….

Notwithstanding my rising respect and admiration for the academic classes I still never fail to be amazed (I know, American spell checkerJ) at the twists and turns that human reasoning produces.

Here are several instances of people with several doctorates attempting to live ordinary lives:

An utterly defeated looking professor came to enquire as to why his cordless kettle would not work. His understanding of cordless was that it did not need any cord whatsoever so naturally he did not see a need to plug in the power cord. Frustration, anger etc followed J Advice sought, advice given, plug in the bloody thing. Instant success J

I seem to have become a bit of a resident compound computer fix-it boy. Got a call from a lady lecturer subject: Printer not working. Went over and true printer was not printing despite being on. A quick cable trace revealed that one end was plugged into the printer whilst the other was lying on the floor. “Not terminated” you might say. After taking a great delight in sarcastically advising that “Hey, it can happen to any of us” I plugged it in and proceeded to demonstrate my extensive computer assembly knowledge by printing something. Bastard of a thing wouldn’t work. Jill was sitting next to me. She quietly said “You sure you plugged it in the right place”. “How dare she insult my professionalism like that?” was my first thought. I was wounded. Deeply. But I checked anyway knowing perfectly well that SHE was going to be wrong. Imagine my utter dismay upon discovering that I had actually pushed a USB cord into an Ethernet slot. Having corrected that minor oversight the printer printed as printers are meant to do.

So how do you teach common sense and street-smarts ??

Posted by Jesse from Jill’s account