(#15) He Was Really Into His Sister
From Redditor /u/mephij:
As a teenager, my mother would tell all her friends that her "computer genius" son could fix whatever computer problems were plaguing them (often for a pittance). One time, I'd been called over to a family friend's house to clean up some malware and whatnot. When I opened the web browser, the dropdown in the address bar taught me more than I cared to know about the 16-year-old kid that lived there.
Myriad searches along the lines of "How to seduce your sister," "sleeping with your sister," etc. It should be noted that his sister was 13 at the time. I told my mother to have her friends call Geek Squad from then on - I was out of the family-friend tech-support business.
(#3) Her Computer Was A Literal Roach Nest
From a former Redditor:
Once... a woman lugged in an older Dell desktop. One of the optiplex models that sat flat [and] opened similar to the way a car hood opens. It wouldn't boot, she says. She is standing a full five feet from me, and the aroma coming off of her made me think she had bathed all the previous week in bear piss. I opened the case of the computer [and panicked] - there was barely a square inch inside that wasn't moving. It was full of cockroaches [and] had so many antennas stuck up in the air waving around looked like they were all at a rock concert - all that was missing was miniature lighters.
I told her it would take a day or two for me to figure it out, so just be patient and I would call her as soon as I knew. I waited until her car left the lot [and] took the computer [and] made for the door. Roaches started swarming out on my shirt [and] my hands... the cover was partially cracked, and then... I dropped the damn thing. The corner hit the floor, effectively jarring a good percentage of the confused occupants out onto my floor, where they began to do as roaches do and scatter in every direction they could. I had a stomp fest. Then a "seal computer in plastic bag" party. Then I went to the store [and] bought [a bunch of] bug [spray, sprayed] the entire shop, [and] went home for the day.
Days later, I informed her of the problem and that I wasn't going to touch the computer anymore but was pretty damn well certain it was done for. She bought another one, and two days later, she was back with it. It wouldn't power on. I cracked this one open... roaches. I went into the power supply... roaches.
At some point during this fiasco, I apparently inadvertently touched my eye. I have contacts, so sometimes I have to readjust them. Within another week, I was in the emergency room with 38 STIES total on my eyelids. I had some deep in the eye sockets in my cheek. I took vicodin and enough antibiotics to change my genetic makeup. I sat for an entire afternoon with hot compresses on my eyes while the sties weeped yellow oozage. The doc said it was a severe bacterial infection - I recounted the cockroach story... he said that was the likely culprit. Now, if I smell roaches when they come in with the computer - they go right back out with it.
(#2) She Had An Awkward Google Search Open
From Redditor /u/meatwad75892:
I was at an elementary school doing updates to a classroom's computers and got to the teacher's desk. Class was at lunch, and the teacher left her computer unlocked with a Google search page open.
She [had] searched for "do watermelon seed gets you pregnent?"
There. That's [who's] teaching your children.
(#14) He Used The Floppy Drive As An Ashtray
From Redditor /u/blackhawknl:
One time, I worked at a computer shop where we had a workplace to repair, put together, and install computers. So this older gentleman walks in and hands me his computer, telling me that it made strange noises and it [wouldn't] boot anymore. As he was telling me the problems of his PC, I noticed a very strong smoker's smell, like I held my nose above three ashtrays. The man told me that his computer made aweful noises and that everytime he booted, his computer would make that noise a little louder.
When this gentleman walks away, I put the computer in the storage room. Still having to deal with that aweful smell.
Fast forward three days. Today, I got the chance to fix the smoker's computer. I booted it up to see what these "noises" were. When it wouldn't boot, I opened it up and immediately saw that almost the entire casing was filled with cigarettes. This guy used his Floppy drive as an ashtray, causing the fans to jam and the computer to overheat.
When I confronted the man about this, he just replied: "But I don't smoke..." Turns out his son smoked, and he had used the computer as hidden ashtray so that his father wouldn't find out...
(#11) Her Computer Was Filled With Tobacco Residue
From Redditor /u/where_is_the_cheese:
There's this old lady that always came in and had a laundry list of stupid sh*t that needed "fixing." I put that in quotes because there usually wasn't anything wrong, she just didn't like the way it worked and thought it should obey her will.
This [woman was] from Poland, and she was old-school hard. She... grew and smoked/chewed her own tobacco. Her teeth were black, her gums were black, and she smelled like she bathed in tobacco. She smoked so much, that the tar or residue from the tobacco built up in her computer and coated the entire inside of the case and its components. It was this dark brown goo. One of the most foul things I've ever seen. No one wanted to get stuck working on it because it was so gross.
(#1) They Found A Live Snake
From Redditor /u/Helen_A_Handbasket:
[In this] particular job, we received units for repair from all over the US, so we'd occasionally find things in them that obviously didn't come from our area. Found a [deceased] scorpion in one once, many live spiders, a... mummified lizard, and a live snake.
It wasn't a very big one, only about a foot long since it had to fit through a missing slot cover in the back of the system. It probably just crawled in there looking for warmth, I'd suspect. I popped off the lid, and there it was, just curled up next to the power supply. I have no fear of snakes, so I just picked it up and took it outside to let it go. It did freak out several people on my way out of the building, though.
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