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Originally Posted by qscgy
Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.
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This reminds me of a story that took place way before my FRC years. IIRC, it was in the fourth year of FRC (1995), though I may be off by a year or so. I had arrived to do an acoustic survey on the USS Littlehales in Brindisi Italy on what was normally a hydrographic survey vessel. This was not a good mix, as acoustics surveys were (and still are) performed with roll-on-roll-off equipment, and the hydro ships were engineered to a single mission, with no spare space; we wound up mounting our equipment to a sheet of plywood strapped to a drafting table. [Edit] And OBTW, laboriously and back-breakingly deploying and recovering an acoustic array in the space beneath a hydro survey launch.[/Edit] As we were securing our equipment (pre survey), one of the ship's E.T.s (electronic technicians, not extraterrestrials) was fussing and fuming at the ship's survey computer station. I politely asked if there was anything I could do to help. He said rather irritably "Not unless you have the printer drivers on disk 5 of windows". I calmly rotated my fanny pack around to my belly, unzipped, pulled out a rubber-banded pack of the 6 Windows 3.1 disks, took off the rubber band, and frisbeed him disk 5. His jaw hit his chest. There were three or four occasions later in the survey when I was asked some really silly "you don't happen to have a ****** in that pouch, do you?" The answer was uniformly no, but I think I gave him some helpful info to find what he needed on a couple of those occasions.