I once had a geek for a roommate. He spent countless hours hacking into anything he could over the Internet. He works in the IT field also.

Sometimes he had the brilliant idea of using my computer while his was compiling or running a particularly resource consuming program.

At times, when I really needed to use my computer for some work, he would be using it and would refuse to yield.

He is a very good friend and I had to devise a plan to just make a statement, not to actually cut him off from my computer.

One day I was taking a short trip to another town and I saw the perfect opportunity. I set up a bios password for access to my machine.

When I was actually boarding the plane I was supposed to take, he called me on my cell phone. He was desperate and complained to me I have this bios password on.

I told him he has his own computer, didn’t need mine.

He said he had some work to deliver and it was all in my HD, so please, would I give him my password?

I said “why do you want it?”

He explained it all to me again and I simply replied “why do you want it?”.

Story repeats itself. Everytime he explains I ask the same question and I only give in when the plane is about to close the doors.

Then I tell him: “the password is ‘ydouwannit”.

He got his work delivered on time and never used my computer again.

But we are still good friends and he is the godfather of my first kid.

We still have a good laugh about this story.