Help Desk

"Which is it?"*

*At the school where my mother worked, the two
first-grade teachers were Miss Paine and Mrs.
Hacking. One morning the mother of a student
called in the middle of a flu epidemic to excuse
her daughter from school.

"Is she in Paine or Hacking?" the school secretary asked.

"She feels fine," said the confused mom. "We have
company, and I'm keeping her home."

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"Help Desk"*

*Manning the computer help desk for the local
school district was my first job. And though I
was just an intern, I took the job very seriously.
But not every caller took me seriously.

"Can I talk to a real person?" a caller asked.

"I am real," I said.

"Oh, I'm sorry," the caller said. "That was rude of
me. What I meant to say was, could I talk to
someone who actually knows something?"
Received on Tue Feb 1 11:19:52 2011