Today I went to a photo shop at Tampines Interchange. My motive was to print some documents from my thumb drive. There was 2 aunties; one photocopying a book at the photocopy machine, and the other one was attending to a customer at the photo-printing machine. I spoke to the one attending to the customer, informing her that I wanted to print some documents from my thumb drive. She took my thumb drive, went to her desktop, and moved the mouse to "activate" her monitor. The CPU was on, the mouse, no doubt, was working fine as there was a light at the mouse. Even after moving the mouse a few times, nothing came out on the screen. From where I was standing, I could see clearly that there wasn't any light at the monitor. Obviously, the monitor was switched off. After a few seconds and still seeing nothing coming out on the screen, she tried moving the mouse again. She flipped the mouse and looked at it (for whatever reasons, I don't know), and tried moving it again. Still, nothing came on the screen.
So, I told her nicely, "Auntie, the monitor is not on."
She replied, "Ya lor, don't know why."
And she continued moving the mouse. After a few tries, she bent down, and SWITCHED OFF the power supply, and SWITCHED it back ON. The light came back on the CPU and the mouse, but there's still no light at the monitor (DUH!!!!).
Again, I informed her. "Auntie... Your monitor is not switched on."
And the next thing she did was..... Bent down again, SWITCHED OFF the power supply, and SWITCHED ON back. Still the same thing. No light at the monitor, therefore nothing came out on the screen. At this point, she started to ask the other auntie for help. They spoke in Mandarin. And the other auntie told her to tell me to try at another shop.
She said, "Don't know what's wrong leh, you want to try at another shop?"
While she said this, the other auntie BENT DOWN AND SWITCHED OFF the power supply, and SWITCHED it back ON. Still... The same result. After that, she looked down at the CPU, and looked at the mouse, and finally... She looked at the monitor, feel around for the button at the monitor, pressed the button and TAAAAADAAAAAAA.... THE SCREEN CAME TO LIFE.
There was a prompt on the screen that says "Start Windows Normally" and the other option was to check for any I-Don't-Know-What (its the message you normally get when you never shut down your computer properly). She stared at the screen. The cursor was at the other option. She didn't press any button. She simply STARED at the screen, until it automatically check for whatever that it was supposed to check. I doubt she understood what was written on the screen, until the countdown timer ended and went to the first option.
Windows started on the computer but it was checking for whatever it was supposed to check, due to the computer wasn't shut down properly. There was a pop-up box, showing the process, and she MOVED the mouse. Maybe she thinks by doing that the pop-up box can go "POOF!!!!" and she can start using the computer. Obviously, it will take some time for the BLOODY COMPUTER to check for whatever it was checking.
I said to her. "Auntie... You shouldn't have switched off the power supply. You should have just switched on your monitor."
Then, she said to me arrogantly. "The equipments belongs to US. We know what to do. Now it will take some time, you have to wait lor."
That really did it. My blood automatically went to my head and I said to her. "Do you even know how to use the computer in the first place??? I already said, your monitor was switched off!!! You could have just pressed that button and it will be on! Who asked you to switch off the whole system? Now you want me to wait? You wait lah until tomorrow!! People already told you, you don't want to listen! STUPID!!!!"