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Bill H
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Cosmic rays

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Some years ago an application I created caused an error, one that did not repeat, and when I went to their office and the client told me about it over coffee I came up with a story about a one-in-a-billion chance cosmic ray striking their computer and causing the error. I went to work on correcting the problem and when I went back to their office to install the fix I was horribly embarrased - they had believed my story about the cosmic ray!

You ever string a client, intentionally or otherwise?
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That is funny. I had a client tell me that, "Anyone can build a web site". I was like right...
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astions wrote:That is funny. I had a client tell me that, "Anyone can build a web site". I was like right...
Anyone can build a website...it's building good websites that matters :wink:
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Pimptastic wrote:
astions wrote:That is funny. I had a client tell me that, "Anyone can build a web site". I was like right...
Anyone can build a website...it's building good websites that matters :wink:
Unfortunately, anyone can build a website and most of them suck.

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Bill H wrote:You ever string a client, intentionally or otherwise?
:oops:
Sometimes my sarcasm gets the better of me, but it usually with my wife (she hates it). I try to keep it as professional as possible with my clients, especially the ones that really don't know better.
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I try to keep it as professional as possible with my clients,
Me too, not that I'm older and (at least a little) wiser.

Actually, I had been working with these folks for quite a while, and I thought they would know I was joking. We had a good laugh about it when I came back with the fix.
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