Ravings of a Textual Deviant

One my my help-desk working buddies sent me something that lands squarely in the category of things I couldn’t even begin to think about making up. Slightly edited to protect…those who are clearly incapable of protecting themselves.

As you know, I deal with the ridiculous every day. Every once in a while, something comes along that goes from ridiculous to sublime. Today, something went so far past sublime that I don’t believe English has the words to properly express the abject, chaos-laden stupidity. We are currently working on a project to convert our older Windows 98 machines to Windows XP. To do this, we are sending our higher end flash drives for the reimage. The customers are instructed to ship the drives back to us when the image is complete.

One customer did not ship the flash drive back.

Instead, they shipped a flagpole.

Let me repeat, a flagpole.

Now please understand, this was not the kind of flagpole that attaches to the side of a house. Oh no, this was the kind of multi-hundred (if not thousand) dollar flagpole that is erected in front of a school. This is the kind of flagpole that comes with a big honking gold eagle on the top. This is the kind of flagpole that… how can I say… IN NO WAY RESEMBLES A 2 OUNCE FLASH DRIVE!!! Eloquence fails me. I have no way to make this funnier (or make sense). This is almost the platonic ideal of idiocy.

Pray for me to whatever gods will listen.

I suppose it would be terribly wrong of me to pray for more too-weird-to-be-fabricated incidents.

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