Phantom.and.Stubborness

Weird weird weird - That's how I felt with some people for the past two days. Perhaps the alignment of the stars or planets were the cause. Pluto got 'swallowed' by Uranus maybe.

There is this dude who smsed me to ask for my help on a technical problem but refuses to tell me his/her name despite several exchanges of smses. All I was given was a Hotmail id which the dude claimed I have on my list but I don't. I wonder if it is so difficult to mention his/her name when requesting for help. I mean at least show some form of sincerity and have some basic manners in communication. No one likes to be talking to phantoms.

The second incident was a dude in an online forum. Despite several explanations and solutions to his technical problem, he just refuses to try the solutions. Basically, he had a column name mismatch and all he needs to do is to match them - as simple as that. The thread went on and on and he asked for a working example to get around the problem which all the solutions I provided had shown him. If only he tried them out, he won't be wasting our time.

Weird...