Apparently Athena was not with me today. As I was pulling my clothes out from the dryer, I heard a clang from the floor. I looked down and saw my iPod's plastic protective case. My heart sank because that must have meant... you guessed it... I washed and dried my iPod. It didn't take me long in digging to find this hot chunk of glass and metal. I was sort of calm about it. I wasn't angry, just sad, because I had bought the thing this past spring. Also, it was my fault for not checking my pants pockets as thoroughly as I had. $300 just went up in a puff of hot air I thought.
After a few hours, I tried turning it on and nothing happened. A few hours after that I had the idea that maybe I should hook it up to the computer and see if anything happens. I wasn't expecting much and when nothing happened, I wasn't surprised but then.... the apple logo appears and the amazing little POS booted up! Aside from a dent along the bottom and some scratches on the metal panel, it seems completely fine.
Who's the god of luck? I may have to switch.
2 comments:
Ah yes, laundry and electronics never mix. Maybe that's why washing machines go wrong all the time?
I once put a mobile phone through the wash twice in a row - after which it developed mood swings and only took calls when it felt like it. Another time I was dumb enough to put the only copy of some important data on a USB stick into the washing machine in my jeans.
But it's okay, because I was also dumb enough to forget to plug in the washing machine. I came back an hour later, panicking because I'd remembered where the stick was...and was embarrassed and pleased in equal measure to find a dead machine.
Sometimes two wrongs do make a right.
They do indeed. Your thing with the washing machine though, I've never unplugged a washing machine before unless it was broken. I don't think that would have been me. USB stick would be fried (or maybe not).
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