Me: Evolved from Nerdling
User: Nice enough, but just never quite grasps the computer thing.
Me: Purgatory IT desk, this is Geek King.
User: Heya! I'm trying to save this letter I just made changes to, but it saying I don't have permission to save it.
Me: Okay, where do you have it saved? I'll see if you have permission to change things there.
User: Microsoft Word.
Me: <Brain reboots> Um...okay, but where do you open the file from?
User: Microsoft Word.
Me: <facepalm> I mean, where is the file if you had to tell me where to go get it?
User: Look, its in Microsoft Word. I guess I don't know what you want from me.
Me: <Long explination on the differences between programs and data files that I won't repeat here as you probably heard it in Intro to Computers 099>
User: <Tone of finally getting it> Oh! I guess that would be my My Documents folder.
Me: <Walks user through a Save as... and wonders if this is why the Norse came up with the idea of the Fenris Wolf eating the world. Wishful thinking?>
User: Nice enough, but just never quite grasps the computer thing.
Me: Purgatory IT desk, this is Geek King.
User: Heya! I'm trying to save this letter I just made changes to, but it saying I don't have permission to save it.
Me: Okay, where do you have it saved? I'll see if you have permission to change things there.
User: Microsoft Word.
Me: <Brain reboots> Um...okay, but where do you open the file from?
User: Microsoft Word.
Me: <facepalm> I mean, where is the file if you had to tell me where to go get it?
User: Look, its in Microsoft Word. I guess I don't know what you want from me.
Me: <Long explination on the differences between programs and data files that I won't repeat here as you probably heard it in Intro to Computers 099>
User: <Tone of finally getting it> Oh! I guess that would be my My Documents folder.
Me: <Walks user through a Save as... and wonders if this is why the Norse came up with the idea of the Fenris Wolf eating the world. Wishful thinking?>
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