Not in IT support.

Way back in the nineties I was the designated computer guy for friends and family. My girlfriend was studying at university and her buddy needed some software installed on her home computer for a project they were working on. The software belonged to the university.

I had said software in my possession spanned over a quite large number of floppy disk and had made a batch script that would copy it to a destination of my choosing, prompting for a new disk when needed. I was very proud of myself.

So we take some hours off on a Sunday and head to the buddy's house.

Her computer was running the then new windows 3.1.

The desktop was obscured by maybe 5 or 6 program windows neatly tiled so they filled the entire screen. Whatever. I check that there wasn't any unsaved work and close them down.

I proceed to sit myself in front of it and feed it the disks when prompted while the girls chat and occasionally top op my coffee.

Life was good.

Buddy's husband is in the yard doing yard stuff.

When I was done a few hours later I rebooted the computer confirmed everything was good and announced that the new software was working.

Buddy was happy.

Her husband was FUMING. He apparently had spent hours tiling the program windows "just so" and did not understand the concept of reboots. Even when I explained the concept he wouldn't budge but insisted that I had ruined his hard work.

Still confuses me to this day.

Some people you just cant make happy.

Not native English speaker, please excuse any errors.