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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #506
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888 888 888 888 888 "Hypothetical Question"
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8
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888 888 888 888 888 " by Z
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 3/8/99
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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As I sit in the Service Center of a non-distinguished Gateway
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Country Store, I watch my managers run around directing people to tuck
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their evil uniform shirts in and to smile when a customer enters the
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store.
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I have come close to falling asleep at my post a plethora of times,
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only to be waken by the occasional musical stylings of Barbara Streisand
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blasting from the stereo speakers of an entirely too powerful machine as
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an entirely too commission based salesperson attempts to make the machine
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seem user-friendly to an entirely too ignorant elderly man.
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I stare out the window, watching the potential customers come and
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go when the phone rings.
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"Thank you for calling Gateway Country, how may i help you?" I
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mumble into the receiver.
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"HI! I have a hypothetical question for you", says the man on the
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other end, excitedly.
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"Oh? How hypothetical is hypothetical?" I ask.
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Ignoring my comment, the man proceeds to ask me a myriad of
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questions regarding the installation of a chip he has HEARD about which,
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when sodered onto the board of a Recordable CD_rom allows the copying of
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Sony Playstation Games. It seems a FRIEND of his has attempted to
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"upgrade" her CD-R in this fashion, but was unfamiliar with the fine art
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of sodering, and managed to make the CDR inoperable (as in the damn thing
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won't even open anymore cos of the lump of metal lodged in the tray).
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"Now", he continues, "If my my friend were to say, own a Gateway,
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and it was the CDR on the Gateway that is no longer functioning, would you
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all replace the CDR for her?"
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Then he rambles in coherently, "Cos I really think that you should
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replace the CDR, cos you have a warranty and are always saying you replace
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things. I am entitled to a replacement CDR."
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THE END.
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DO NOT EVER WORK IN A CUSTOMER SERVICE BASED FIELD BECAUSE YOU
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ALWAYS END UP HATING MANKIND.
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #506 - WRITTEN BY: Z - 3/8/99 ]
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