# Favorite customer quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-customer-quotes/119024>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 15, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-customer-quotes/119024 "2002-07-15T08:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-customer-quotes/119024/81 "2002-07-23T21:17:59Z")

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Back in college, when I used to work in the computer maintenance group, we would spend the summers upgrading the school’s public labs. It never fails, you can put up big signs saying “cluster closed for maintenance” that all but completely block the entrance. You can shut the doors. You can remove every single computer, cable, and even desk from the room. Yet the numb-nuts _still_ walk in and force you to go through the same exchange:

Me: “I’m sorry, the cluster is closed.”  
Them: “Oh. Can I still check my e-mail?”

It being the summer, these were usually _grad_ students. Sometimes professors. :rolleyes:

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