"Windoz Support"

[Chip Fetrow]

They finally got around to me — twice in one day on the same phone number!  They were both Near East accents, and the Caller ID was not available.  I hadn’t been answering, but I wanted the ringing to stop.  Monday will be two weeks.

The first guy was interesting.  I told him (honestly) that I don’t have a single machine running Windoz.  I have several running Unix, one running Linux, and five running OS X, three OS X.5 and two OS X.9.  He kept asking if I had ever run Windoz, and I asked why that mattered since I have not run Windoz for 8 years or more.  I ended up hanging up.

The next call was from someone with an accident so thick he was very difficult to understand.  He too could not believe that there are people who don’t run Windoz.  He was so hard to communicate with that I didn’t bother to have fun with him and just hung up.  No calls since then.

—chip