Laptop Horror Stories Entry #4: Rock and Crunch

Friday, March 16th, 2007

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It was a lovely afternoon as I was using my laptop while sitting in my recliner, when the phone rang. Cursing my forgetfulness, since I hadn’t grabbed my cordless phone off the charger earlier, I set my laptop down on the floor, closing it as I placed it there, and rushed to the phone. After my call was done, I came back and sat down – in my rocker-recliner – and the side of my laptop had somehow edged its way under the chair… It was actually a pretty quiet crunch. The screen was destroyed but plugged into an external monitor, the laptop still worked. At least my data was saved…

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