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It was a quiet morning, well actually dead quiet, as not one customer had stopped to either pick up or drop off any computers. Joe finished his hamburger and was just getting ready to put the open sign out again when a burly guy with orange suspenders and a yellow hard hat banged on the door. "Coming", he said and in one motion both opened the door and flipped the sign. "I gotta get this fixed real fast," he said, "I need this for work". "Sure." said Joe, "but I don't fix computers for businesses". "I just work on personal computers and everything is paid in cash" he stated as he pointed to a big sign that said CASH ONLY. "No problem," said the construction worker, "This is mine and I'll pay! I put all my work papers on this laptop and I shouldn't have." He continued somewhat frantic; I need this to start! I need to get it working and get back to work. Can you help? I will certainly try, Joe replied, and he took the laptop and disappeared into a back room. The worker paced back and forth, while Joe, in the midst of six or seven laptops and computer towers on the table, made room and set it down.

Joe opened the laptop and pushed the button, Whirr, click, click, beep, the machine came to life. The screen lit brightly and everything seemed to work just fine. Joe checked the mouse pad and inspected the cover. He wiped it down and restarted it. It started again just fine. He picked up the laptop still running and returned to the counter. "Just a loose wire" Joe lied. "Could be more but I figured you were in a hurry. See, it's working just fine now." The man in the bright yellow hard hat was wide-eyed and seemed amazed. "You saved my life man! You don't know how glad I am! This is great! What do I owe you? "Forty dollars," Joe said, "cash, you know." "Great, here! Keep the change", he said, as he scooped up the laptop and took it back outside. Once outside he quickly wheeled around and went back in. "Wait," he said, "I mean it when I say thanks!" He stretched out his arm and big grizzled hand and said, "You really saved the day." They shook hands and he left again.
Joe sat there quietly thinking. He was happy, the customer was happy, the laptop is working, and it fixed itself, what's wrong with that?