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retoor949220hFrom all stories, this happened the most. Yeah, weird how people lose their way when it looks like a bit different huh. Always was amazed by it.
Good that your daughter didn't ask why you still have a homework folder and why it's 42 gigabyte. -
PaperTrail1045819h@retoor > "Yeah, weird how people lose their way when it looks like a bit different huh"
This is the same woman who reads our insurance's benefit details (the ones that are hundreds of pages) and comprehends it enough to find the loopholes.
We had a contract with a roofing company for a new roof, siding, gutters etc (hail storm damage), and she found several duplicate entries, just worded slightly different, that they were trying to double-bill the insurance. She 'called them out', which the company rep tried to make sound like she didn't understand construction contracts.
TL;DR, when she essentially said 'OK, I'll call our insurance rep and a lawyer to help me understand your contract', the rep (within an hour) had an adjusted contract. My wife fired them anyway, demanding our non-refundable deposit back (which we got back), saying the contract still was misleading.
*I* would have never caught the details she caught. Its a superpower I don't have. -
PaperTrail1045819h@PaperTrail > "when she essentially said 'OK, I'll call our insurance rep"
She did contact our insurance rep and he was dumbfounded that she knew how to find the discrepancies ("How did you even know where to look?").
Her response to me afterwards: "How did *he* not know? That's is his job! No wonder these insurance companies are going bankrupt. Idiots." -
jestdotty675518h@PaperTrail that makes sense
she builds a universe of stringent details. she's not used to adapting it. because in legal papers that stuff is huge but never changes. so her brain doesn't have experience in changing mental structures. but she can consume huge structures to find loopholes in them since they're not changing live while you work with them -
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D-4got10-01161614hCongrats on having a good daughter.
Wife, too.
We each have our own skill sets, I guess.
A day in my life. This morning Dell was doing it's update on my laptop before I left for work, so later when I knew my wife was up I asked her via text to shut my laptop off.
W: "You left your laptop on this morning."
Me: "I know, it was still doing an update this morning. I sent you a text."
W: "Leaving your computer on all day is going to burn it up."
Me: "Its 8:30, been maybe a half hour isn't a day."
W: "Still wasting electricity. How do I turn this thing off?"
Me: "It's just like yours."
W: "No, your computer is way different than mine. Just tell me how to turn it off"
Me: "My computer is running Windows 11, yours is Windows 10, shutting down is exactly the same"
W: "I don't understand, yours looks completely different. Stop being an ass and just tell me"
Me: "Select Start, then shut down"
W: "Select what? There isn't anything that says Start"
Me: "Sorry, click the little icon in the bottom left. Looks like four little blue squares. That's the Windows Start menu button, just like yours."
W: "OK, now what?"
Me: "Shut down"
W: "Shut down what? I don't see anything"
Me: "The icon that looks like power button next to my name"
W: "There is nothing next to your name except your picture"
Me: "It'll be on the right hand side"
W: "Where the clock is?"
Me: "No, on the Start menu, where you see my picture, there should be a button to turn it off."
W: "No, it went away"
Me: "What do you mean went away?"
W: "All that disappeared when you told me to click over by the clock."
Me: "I didn't say to click on the clock, anyway, doesn't matter. Start over, select the icon in the bottom left"
W: "You're not listening. There is nothing there when I click that. You're such as ass. You cannot even tell me how to turn off this stupid computer. I'm busy, you can turn this thing off when you get home."
<a few minutes later I text my daughter>
Me: "Baby girl, can you turn off my computer?"
<10 seconds later>
H: "Done. Anything else?"
Me: "Nope. Thank you."
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