The person that met me was a young woman wearing a hijab, and her father. She placed the laptop on the table, where the OS was being reinstalled.
I asked her if she followed basketball, to which she said her father did, along with her brother (with a tone of voice that said, :rolls eyes:). I told her father that I had started following the sport this season, and we talked about how constructing championship teams like the Heat in the early 2010s and the Cavaliers the last few seasons, the Rockets, was making basketball into a business rather than a sport.
The Warriors, he said, were an example of a championship team that was built organically. I replied that the Celtics were similar, and just like the Warriors had added Kevin Durant, the Celtics had added Kyrie Irving.
The woman was looking at an error screen, and the laptop wouldn’t boot. She said that she had canceled the install midway through.
“Ah”, I said, “I know what might have happened. The operating system could have been partly installed, so the machine is not bootable”
She had a puzzled look, so I elaborated:
“Say you have a car that you take into the shop to have the brakes, transmission, and engine serviced.
In one case, you ask them to stop servicing the car while it is being serviced, and they have completed working on the brakes and the engine. The car is drivable.
In another case, you ask them to stop servicing the car while it is being serviced, and they have completed working on the brakes and the engine, but are in the middle of working on the transmission. The car isn’t drivable.
So when you cancelled the install in the middle of it, it could have been like the second case”
