Customer: “One of my friends gave me an ImageWriter printer and this keyboard. He said he gave me all the cables, but I can’t figure out how to connect them. Am I missing something?”
Tech Support: “Well, a computer would help.”
Customer: “You mean this keyboard isn’t a word processor?”
Tech Support: “No ma’am, its just an input device.”
Customer: “Then I need to buy a computer, right?”
Tech Support: “Yes.”
Customer: “Do you think I’ll need a monitor, too?”
Customer: “My mouse doesn’t work any more.”
Tech Support: “Is it an optical or ball mouse?”
Customer: “Huh?”
Tech Support: “Does it have a ball or light?”
Customer: “It has an light on top.”
Tech Support: “On top?”
Customer: “Yeah. It was underneath before, but it looks better when it’s on top.”
Tech Support: “Ok, try turning it around so the light points down on the desk.”
Customer: “Oh! It works!”
A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”
The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I would makes a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn’t know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters…
First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand… Totally exhausted and panting. Second poster, the man is drinking our Cola and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place”
“That should have worked,” said the friend.
The salesman replied, “Well, not only did I not speak Arabic, I also didn’t realise that Arabs Read from Right to Left…”