Laptop Flop, Part 36

A customer brings his laptop into our computer repair shop. It’s about a two- or three-year-old model by this point.

Customer: “My laptop has died. It won’t turn on.”

Me: “Okay, let’s have a look.”

I put the laptop on the bench in front of us, plug it in, and press the power button — which on this model is located fairly conspicuously just next to the keyboard. Lo and behold, it powers right up on the first try.

Customer: “Oh, I had no idea that there was a button there!”

Yes, he genuinely had no idea that the power button even existed and had simply never turned the computer off since his wife had turned it on a few years ago when it was new.

Related:
Laptop Flop, Part 35
Laptop Flop, Part 34
Laptop Flop, Part 33
Laptop Flop, Part 32
Laptop Flop, Part 31