CP3S said:

Bingowings said:

An Apple computer repair man called me 'an arse', in writing and signed it which I took as a invitation to a free replacement computer, it was and all so in that respect I wasn't upset.

I want to hear more about this story.

So there was some contract for a new Apple computer through a warranty or something, I assume, and the dude wrote in it that you were an arse?

That's awesome! I wish people would call me an arse in contracts. I'd sign the hell out of them!

I was going through a more money than sense phase.

I got a 17inch PowerBook G4 back when they were the only 17inch laptop on the market and they cost a fair whack.

I had just moved away from my cheating money hungry ex and it acted as a DVD player/Music Centre/Internet Radio/Net machine thing in the tiny house I ended up in. It was handy but basically it was a, "there, there" present to myself (cheaper less fancy options were available).

I got it from an official affiliated Apple supplier but not the Apple store as there weren't that many around back then (now every shop that isn't a charity shop or boarded up is a freakin' Apple Store or a Tesco).

About a year in I started getting electric shocks from the case and took it to the shop to be seen to, they would take it for a while and give it back and then I would get more shocks and take it back until eventually it blew my headphones up while I was wearing them and the speakers stopped working.

So I took it back again and I hardly saw the thing for about nine months while I was writing to the shop, to Apple, visiting the shop to get the latest BS from the store manager until eventually I got a call to pick up my machine.

They had fixed it and it now worked but attached to bag was a repair slip where the shop manager called me an arse.

So I naturally sent this off to Apple who sent me a new PowerBook G4 (just before they announced the switch over to intel).

I got to keep the original laptop too but it wasn't until I got broadband that I discovered the cheeky monkeys at the shop had pinched my Airport card so I had to buy a new one to get it to go wireless.

Still, I wonder what I would have got if he called me a sack of 5h1t?

I won't be getting anything else from Apple not because they called me an arse but because I can't afford their overpriced gimmicks anymore but the laptop has lasted a very long time.

5 Balls for Durablity.

5 Balls for Free extra fancy pants laptop.

3 Balls for the amusement of being called an Arse by a soon to be ex-employee (their shop was closed last time I checked, almost every Cancom shop is the source of some sort of consumer horror show).

-3 Balls for stealing my Airport card

-7 Balls for the price.

-3 Balls for the electric shocks and the assumption that my leg skin serves as an effective heat sink.

Bingowings said:

About a year in I started getting electric shocks from the case and took it to the shop to be seen to, they would take it for a while and give it back and then I would get more shocks and take it back until eventually it blew my headphones up while I was wearing them and the speakers stopped working.

There's your problem: stop listening to ACDC !

I have gone through an ironage but at the time was going all folkzie Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake.

So the last thing I wanted was electric ears.

If my ears weren't so screwed up I might have heard my neighbour shout "Judas" at me.