Unnecessary Printing

Several years ago, my Grandad decided to try learn how to use a computer and experience the internet. He went all-in and bought a printer as well.

One time, I went around to his house and he said he had problems with his computer. Anything that resembled any kind of error, he seemed to panic.

I can’t even remember what his problem was exactly, probably something like OneDrive failing to sign-in. When I followed him into his computer room, he picked up a stack of papers and handed them to me. I looked at them and he had printed out the errors!

I thought it was hilarious. I told some of my colleagues about it and it became and inside-joke, so if one of us has an error we would tell each other to print it out so we can help resolve it.

A few months back, I saw Wes Bos tweet this and it made me laugh because I felt it was something my Grandad would have done.

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