Not a speck of dust
I work for an engineering company. I had an engineer (with an
engineering Ph.D., no less) call me about a broken mouse. When I arrived at his
office, he showed me the problem by moving the mouse smoothly from one side of
the mouse pad to the other while pointing out that the cursor moved in jerks. I
showed him how to open the mouse, remove the ball and how to clean the crud
from the rollers. After this, the mouse worked perfectly. He was quite happy
and I left satisfied that this "problem" had been solved to
everyone's satisfaction. However, the next morning, I again received a call
from Dr. X to say that his mouse was broken. This time when I arrived, he moved
the mouse from one side of the pad to the other while the cursor did not move
at all. When I turned the mouse over, I found that our engineer had decided
that the mouse was poorly designed to allow all of the dust and debris to enter
it. To correct this poor design, he had applied scotch tape over the entire
underside of the mouse! I have to admit, he would probably never have had a
dirty mouse problem again!
Thank you for that contribution
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