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[xsarien]

...Says an old poster printed on a dot matrix printer back at my parents' place. It was always next to the computer, and by age 5 I knew what it meant.

In this particular case, I'm in the midst of researching new mobiles, because my contract is up in a few months and I need to decide whether I'm staying, going, and which phones do what I need them to do.

(I'm thinking RAZR if I go Cingular, E815 if I stay with Verizon. I'm through with LG and their phones that feel like they're made from the cheapest plastic on Earth.)

And like fucking clockwork, my fully-charged phone from last night flashed the "Please Charge!" message at me today. Odd, that. No missed calls that might have made the ringer go off several times or anything. I'm telling you, it KNOWS that it's headed for the dreaded Drawer of Misfit Gizmos.





So anyway, this kind of shit ever happen to you? A printer actually commits suicide the night before a paper's due? A computer grind to a screeching halt right before a big tournament or in the middle of an important project after days - no, WEEKS - of flawless activity? Your car die right before a big date?

 

[StoOgE]

I had just finished building my new comp last February and everything worked fine for days.. so I got rid of my old one (gave it to a friend).. then the night a midterm is due, the wireless keyboard decides that the a, i and l keys do not need to work anymore. Typing a 10 page paper at the last minute is bad enough, having to sit there and thing about intentionally close misspellings of words without using those keys makes it even more fun.

 

[moist]

Last year I had a monitor that decided to end itself Sunday evening while I was writing a final for my poli sci class that was due the next day. Thankfully I made it to Best Buy right before they closed to get a new one.