What goes around, comes around

on 1/27/09 7:04 PM Beauciphus said the following:
It seems our friend in France is without his internet connection. According
to his blog, he lost his internet connection, spent three days pay on a new
reouter, and shortly thereafter lost his email and web server.

"I finally connected with someone who sounded like a real technician at
France Télécom, during banking hours, and after making it clear to him
that I was not a standard dolt and that we could skip all the cookbook
questions (“Is the PC plugged in?” “Do you see the Web page in front of
you?” and so on), we spent considerable time discussing the problem and
my test results. He managed to convince me that it might be the router
on my side, even though this didn't seem entirely congruent with the
symptoms I had seen."

Can you imagine the hell that tech went through, having to argue with a
nonstandard dolt?