Re: I'm sure we've all done this too
"Equipment needs to know who's boss."
YES! This! A thousand, thousand, thousand times this!
I have to explain to many staff that the reason the machine starts working when I do exactly what they did is because mine was the first hand to touch it and it knows I *will* slap it if it misbehaves.
And if anyone ever starts a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Computers, they may be subject to a Terrible Accident...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
