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Had a customer in a Denver suburb who insisted I run the coax through his pet door
I was setting up a new line for his home theater system last fall, and he pointed to the little flap in his back door. He said, 'It's already a hole, right? Just feed it through there, it'll save you time.' I had to explain that a standard pet door flap would chew through the cable in about a week. He looked genuinely surprised and asked, 'But what about the cold air getting in?' What's the strangest 'shortcut' a customer has ever suggested to you?
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reese861mo ago
And honestly, @jamie_allen9 made a solid point too, because pets and cables are a disaster waiting to happen. I've seen people try the wildest stuff, like running ethernet through a window frame with a towel stuffed in the gap to keep the bugs out. That Denver guy wasn't trying to be difficult, he just genuinely thought a pet door flap was a permanent solution. It's like some folks see a pre-existing hole and their brain just goes, 'well yeah, that's what holes are for.' You gotta hand it to them for creativity even if the logic is totally off.
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lily972mo ago
That Denver story is a classic, and I totally feel for you. I swear some people just see holes and think they're universal ports. Jamie_allen9 has the right idea about the dog chewing wires, but honestly the weather damage alone would be a disaster. It's wild how customers sometimes come up with these "solutions" that would actually cause way more problems than they'd ever fix.
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