Networking (Score 1)

Not an explanation I have been given, but instead gave to someone of whom I later told it was a joke. An employee at the office I was working out of had to get his laptop on the network and it would not get an address. Well, the line was showing good to the tester but I went ahead and re-terminated it as a crossover instead. This ended up fixing the problem (the wall plate had been terminated wrong) but he was not in the office when I fixed it. I glanced behind his desk and there was a whole bundle of CAT5 back there, I pulled out a particular strand of it and when he came back in to ask the problem I told him the line was kinked and the electrons couldn't get through, just like a water hose when it is kinked. He bought it even though he use to be a service tech at an RF amplifier company! Couldn't stop laughing for half the day. I did tell him the real problem afterwards.