Do people not realize how asinine they sound sometimes? Now, I realize that we're all capable of making asinine comments from time to time (myself definitely included), but I just don't get this one.
I just got a call from a customer who wanted to cancel her brand-new DSL service because she's "not satisfied" with it. I asked her what the problem seemed to be and get this - there's not a problem with the actual service itself, she wants to cancel because we don't have a screen name pull-down menu like AOL, and it's too hard for her 5-year-old daughter to check her e-mail because she needs to type it in every time, because they have two e-mail addresses.
EXCUSE ME?!?!?! What the hell is your 5-year-old doing unsupervised on the compute rin the first place, AND with her own e-mail address? Don't parents have any idea of what's available on the internet and what kind of crap shows up in random e-mail boxes? I don't care how much filtering software you have, there is always going to be stuff that gets through.
{{shaking head}} Just one more episode in the "I Can't Be Trusted to Raise My Own Child, So I Need Others to do it For Me" series, available in a suburb or urban setting near you. If there would ever be a reason I'd be afraid to have kids, it's this. I'd be afraid that my brain would somehow get pushed out in the birthing process and I'd instantly become RetardoMom.
Posted by beenie at January 28, 2004 02:07 PM