"We don't have any PC's"

I've just played answerphone tennis with someone I've never met before who works for one of our clients.

They left a message and asked if it was OK if they brought some "stuff" with them to the office for a presentation. I left a message and said yes, but we don't have any PC's, so bear that in mind.

We eventually spoke and after a few pleasantries the conversation went like this:

Them "Do you have somewhere I can print stuff out?"
Me "Err, yes, we have a printer."
"OK, do you have something I could plug a USB stick into?"
"Err, yeah, we do, yeah."
"OK. Do you have PowerPoint?"
"Umm, yes."
"Oh, it's just that your message sounded like you didn't have any computers there?"
"Ahhh I see. When I said we didn't have any PC's I meant that we only have Macs..."

Classic miscommunication. Although if they seriously thought we didn't have any computers I'd be a bit worried.

For the record we do have a PC for testing etc but we keep it quiet...

Comments

[Tom]

Must have been the erroneously located apostrophe in 'PC's' which confused them, Ben.

[haracas]

I kinda thought you didn't have any computers either at first >.> (proud mac user =D)

[Rob]

Didn't you post this a couple months ago?

Or maybe it's deja vu and I can see into the future.

[Mat]

A nice Un-PC post.

[Andy]

Go on, ask them if you can borrow a raincoat.

[Phillip]

PC stands for personal computer... a more accurate way to describe "PC" would be to call them windows machines instead.

Or, we could all stand around making snotty remarks about the stupidity of those outside our perfect little Apple community.