We have all delved into the festering underworld of IT and tech. I have been there many times – and have tales to tell.

My one favourite comes from a time when I was still an IT techie working in a computer store.

It involves an impossible customer, a pc, and an unexpected resident in said pc…

The story begins with my boss receiving a phonecall from an irate customer. Her “office computer” simply “will not work!!!”, and she was threatening to go to the newspapers.

Fine, bring it in -  he said – I’ll have Quintin take a look at it free of charge.

By the time the lady dropped the computer tower case off she had my boss at the point where he agreed to simply move her hard-drive into another machine. “Just get this woman off my back” he said with a shrug as I watched her stomp off to her car.

The first thing I noticed was that the computer was wet, yes wet. I did not like the idea of booting a wet PC to see what I could salvage before I swapped the hard-drive, so I opened it up.

And there it was – a pair of eyes staring back at me.

I did not notice it immediately, mind you, I was puzzled by the salty wet white residue covering most of the motherboard.

Only when it moved slightly to get out of the way of my probing fingers did I realize it was there.

A frog.

After the initial adrenaline rush I burst out laughing – more a high pitched fright driven giggle – and carried the box into my bosses office.

Theres your problem – right there!

It’s fun when a frog jumps out of a computer in the middle of a meeting…

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