Wife: the neighbors brought their pc, it doesn't work.

Me: WTF did I say to you. I DON'T REPAIR ANYTHING NO PCS, PRINTERS, WASHMACHINES NOTHING TELL THEM TO GET THE FUCKING PC GODDAMIT ITS MY FREE DAY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

The problem is that everybody thinks that computer repairs are free because we now each other.... I'm a dev not a technician :)

@iNCEPTiON The problem is that "us devs" are often both pleasers and nitpicks.

When someone tells me at a birthday party about their crappy broken computer, I have a strong urge to start picking parts, asking questions about their budget, etc.

I want everyone to have a perfect system, malware free, with neatly organized file systems, using ethical / non bloat software.

But it's an endless crusade.

So my parents in law were convinced for the first five years by claims like:

"I'm not that great with technology, could you help me set the clock on the thermostat" (I worked on embedded systems in aerospace at the time)

"What is this Twitter thing I keep hearing about on the news?"

"I am not good with word documents, could you paste it in an email" (I had worked at MS, on the office team)

The ruse didn't last forever, but long enough to not become the IT support guy in the family.

Hey man, can you fix my computer?