Yesterday, at work one of our copiers would not copy or scan pages from the tray on top. You know those trays that suck in the paper and spit it out below, and in seconds a copy comes out of the copier. Being more of a computer guy than a copier guy, I went and looked at it. And couldn’t figure it out, because if you made a copy the old fashioned way “on the glass” it worked. I looked at it opening doors, cleaning the little glass strip that scans the pages from the tray. But I couldn’t figure it out. I also made a rookie mistake, which I’ll come back to later. 
So I called the copier repair guy. I figured he’d show up today, but yesterday at 4:30 he arrived. Well, he gets to looking at it, commenting on how weird it is that it will copy the other way, etc. I tell him the few things I tried, and he nods and checks some things then turns to me and says “Did you threaten it?”
Now, I took this as a joke. Seeing how I like to joke I went along. “Yeah, I did.” I respond. Then there is a pause. I can see I have inadvertently taken the wind out of this guy’s sails. I’m guessing he didn’t have anywhere to go from there. I guess no one had told him yes to that. I figured that he was going to have a follow up, or good punch line after the threaten remark. But I guess not. Now there is a slight awkward silence.
I’m feeling kind of bad. Then I get to feel stupid. He turns off the copier, and turns it back on. He runs a paper through the tray and it copies fine. It turns out that one of the scanning components had not returned to “home” position and restarting it will make it return there. With that, he’s done.
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