So here is what happened recently.
Someone I know (she is not cute, just being clear), was boo-hooing because her computer died. So as I was walking by (at the wrong time), I was pulled in - and because I am Mr. Computer, I was asked to fix. So I was nice enough to take a look. I looked at it - the PC was toast - the motherboard was fried. It was a Pentium 166 Mhz, with a 4 gig HDD and 4 MB RAM running Win 95.
She was all depressed and sad saying - she had important stuff on it's ancient 4 gigabyte hard disk.
So I said, okay let me move that data to my computer and we should be hunky dory.
So I opened that computer which had more dust than the sahara desert. I pulled that hard disk out - which made me sick because there were dead animals on it. I took it to my place, I plugged it on my pc and bingo I got affected by the damned Nimda virus. Anyway, I cleaned the whole thing up, tried restoring the data - and that hard disk had tonnes of bad clusters. So I wasn't able to restore all the data.
Then I thought "hey it's only 4 gigs, let me image it", so I imaged it - but the image wouldn't get created. Finally the image did get created - and I burned it on a DVD. So I gave her the DVD and said "Here - this is all your data".
She said "But I don't have a DVD drive, only a CD drive".
So I went back split the file up, and started burning CDs only to realize NERO/ITUNES had messed up my CD burning capabilities - so I said screw it - I've spent enough time for free - let her arrange a DVD drive.
She never bothered to ask me for either the CDs or DVD for about 6-8 months. And now these days when I am busier than Michael Jackson at a daycare, I get this email out of the blue asking for the DVD.
And now I don't have it.
So I'm being given a guilt trip and angry emails about what an awful person I am.
Moral of the story: If anyone asks "Can you do it". The right answer is "DOH !!!"
How do you guys deal with such situations
