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Comment by wallst07

3 hours ago

Reminds me of a story: I was sitting at a restaurant waiting for my food. I casually notice two young children in the next booth playing with a phone, but pay little attention.

Moments later their dad (presumably) comes back and asks for his phone back and sits down with their food. The kids are eating and the dad is fumbling with his phone with odd looks and I can see his frustration growing.

Then out I hear something like "What did you do to my phone?" repeated loudly over and over. "You erased my phone, it's gone."

The small children (guessing) had figured out how to factory reset his phone.

My thought at the time was something like : How many times did I do something as a toddler I don't remember to piss of my dad like that and that he never got mad or brought it up later (Lots of times knowing myself).

and of course, it doesnt matter that he is their dad, or even that they are small children.

The wise man sees that when a fool has broken his system, its no use getting angry at the fool. Make the system better.

  • In this instance, the system worked as designed. Phone got wiped after too many incorrect PIN inputs.