An office manager seems to have continual problems with his computer.
Rather than reading the manual, he calls the company’s technicians every
time. One afternoon, a technician shows up, clicks a couple buttons and
solves the problem.
As she is walking away, the office manager calls after her, “So, what
was wrong?”
“It was an ID Ten T error,” the technician says. “An ID Ten T Error?
What’s that, in case I need to fix it again?”
“Haven’t you ever heard of an ID Ten T Error before?” the technician
asks. “No,” says the manager.
“Well, write it down,” she says. “You’ll figure it out.”
After she’s left, the manager, still puzzled, scribbles the message on
a pad of paper:
I D 1 0 T.
