Meet Colin Chambers, Colin ran into a very specific problem and he did his very best to cope.
me: I prolly look so ugly staring at my phone rn
me: pic.twitter.com/O354G02U2d
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) March 2, 2018
Colin had a psychology research paper due, but there was one problem: his ‘M’ key stopped working. Naturally, he decided to include the explanation of the missing ‘M’ in the introduction to his paper:
I have a research paper due in 4 hours and the letter M on my keyboard is broken pic.twitter.com/WkUmmiSjak
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) May 9, 2018
Colin’s troubles continued when he tried to contact Apple support to fix the issue:
apple support has their best and brightest assigned to my case pic.twitter.com/wcjNEkI90g
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) May 10, 2018
But some people noticed something strange… There’s an ‘M’ right there in May at the top!
Also… did he write the date before his name? Explain this M! pic.twitter.com/fkDoRnsxuN
— Peter Burns (@Pierreth) May 10, 2018
But Colin had an answer for that:
to all of you out there who got your masters degree in criminal investigation and are experienced detectives: congrats on noticing the M in May, microsoft word adds the date automatically
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) May 10, 2018
Naturally Twitter was wheezing with laughter and trying to help as best they could:
Idk if this helps but you have a iPhone download Microsoft word on it and type your paper on there then email it to yourself to format it as needed
— Yaryar (@Brownsknlady) May 10, 2018
Also copy and paste the letter m from google
— Kattt☯ (@katej_22) May 9, 2018
And Colin had an answer for that too:
can you just email me the letter M please
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) May 10, 2018
In the end, this seems like the easiest solution, although it’s still kind of a nightmare:
Write the document with \\ in place of m then to a find and replace at the end ezpz
— mr baldo (@carlyraelooloo) May 10, 2018
Colin’s original tweet got almost 120,000 retweets and 570,000 likes, but he’s handling his new-found Twitter fame like a pro:
Stay humble, @ColinChambers44 pic.twitter.com/qexV7emhxn
— ♡Ally♡ (@allyobs) May 10, 2018
Catch my mans yodeling on Ellen pic.twitter.com/G20zXHdv2g
— stephanie (@marinisteph) May 10, 2018
now that i’ve got all 336,000 of you right where i want you can someone help me with my stats homework
— Colin C (@ColinChambers44) May 10, 2018
Hopefully Colin got his paper turned in, with or without the missing ‘M’s. Thanks for giving the rest of us a break from finals by entertaining us with your own problems.