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Not a personal story, but a historical confluence I find interesting and rarely have the occasion to share:
There was once a German Calvinist teacher named Joachim Neumann. He was known for his hymns, and would frequent a valley of the river Dussel to seek spiritual retreat. At the time, there was a fad for Hellenizing one's surname, and so Neumann (New Man) became known as Neander.
The valley (German Thal/Tal) was eventually named after him. Centuries later while excavating a quarry, the remains of an archaic species of human were found and subsequently named after the valley, giving us Neanderthals. Whenever the subject of neanderthal culture comes up, I can't help but imagine them as Calvinists.
As for a personal story, as the family IT guy, I'm often summoned to troubleshoot issues with printers and streaming boxes. As often as not my mere presence seems to resolve the issue. Now you could say having someone looking over your shoulder would make you subconsciously more careful when entering text, or force you to think through the steps of whatever you're trying to do, so you're less likely to mess up. But we all know the real reason, the presence of a powerful tech-adept has appeased the machine spirit.
The magical IT field is emitted in a cardioid aligned to the forward axis of the generator. Its effect is inversely exponentially proportional to the distance from the generator. This is why almost all IT problems are immediately solved only when you have put down whatever you were working on and actually started going over to help.
So IT guys are antennas.