Monday, December 11, 2000

“Help” desk

Trained monkey ISP phone person: May I help you?

Brad: I hope so. For the past 24 hours, I haven't been able to send or receive e-mail, nor to access my webspace through FTP. Now, it appears that I can't access the Internet at all through my dial-up connection. What's going on?

Monkey: We're experiencing a service disruption.

Brad: Any idea when that'll be cleared up?

Monkey: No.

Brad: So what's causing the "service disruption"?

Monkey: Sir, it's rather technic—

Brad: Try me.

Monkey: Well, basically, we've lost our backbone. Do you know what that means?

Brad: Of course. Same thing happened with my last three boyfriends when I said I wanted a commitment.