Suckerfish on the Side of Your Whale

""Well it worked yesterday!"

That line in it's wholesome entirety, is perhaps my most loathed line out of a customer's mouth. I usually retort with something to the effect of:
Me - "Do you own a car?"
Customer - "Yes."
Me - "Has your car worked properly the one day and not the next?!"
Customer - "Yes, but this is a computer!"
Me - "And your point is???!!!"

Apparently computers are magic and run by themselves. This perception blows my mind. People can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that computers break or things go wrong. Even my mother who's a very intelligent woman by all accounts, has said this to me when it came to her computer problems.

Usually when you use the car analogy, people clue in and 'get it', but there's the odd few who keep repeating that dreaded line.... ""Well it worked yesterday!"

Shoot me. Shoot me now. Actually, shoot them. I'd prefer not dealing with the trouble of making my own funeral arrangements.