A very weird and gross and humuliating tech story...

[ArenaBoy]

This is something that I heard today. I had to go to the computer store to get my laptop battery replaced. While the tech was going through paperwork with my computer, we discussed odd stories about computer repair, most of mine coming from this site. Eventually, I asked him what his most oddest computer repair story was and I was told this gem. A young man who was about 19 years old and had his mother accompany him walked in with a laptop. He just said that it needed a repair. Nothing out of the ordinary for the tech but his day got weird when he was told to get a pair of rubber gloves. The tech asked the 19 year old why he needed rubber gloves, the 19 year old is having a hard time trying to find the correct words to tell his story. His mother grows impatient and says that he wet the bed and his laptop was on the bed. What happened was the kid fell asleep and slept for a long time, somehow ignoring his basic bodily functions and he just flat out wet the bed. The tech simply told him that he would need a new computer. The kid did get a new laptop but he had to pay for the new one as he was past his warranty.

[draggar]

At least they were polite enough to tell you that BEFORE you worked on it. How many times do I get a phone, I openit up, it's soaking wet, when I inform the customer this THEN they tell me they dropped it in the toilet.

[RichS]

OK, I've heard of the various animals being fried inside computers, I've worked on systems so dusty the dust forms a beard on the front, so smoky from cigarettes that the fans are clogged with tar.

But that beats them all as the grossest. I'd have them toss that system straight in the dumpster (and hopefully they did).

[Impetrix]

Heh. College tech desk worker here.

Gross-out Number One:

Drunk Guy A wanders into Drunk Guy B's room. DGA is drunk enough to mistake a laptop for a urinal, and DGB is to drunk to realize that his computer is being pissed on.

We actually cleaned the damn thing and got it functional again. And, yes, we knew what it was that was spilled on it. DGA pays DGB the full price of the laptop, so DGB gets a brand-new identical computer with the hard drive imaged over, while DGA buys the urinated-upon-yet-functional computer with the hard drive blank.


Gross-out Number Two:

Previously Drunk Guy brings in his laptop. He "spilled water" on it. We take out the keyboard and realize, no, that was NOT water. It had chunks in it.

Fortunately for PDG, he had Dell's Complete Care. We stuck the damn thing in a trash bag, sealed it up, got approval for a system swap (in a couple days... glad that bag was sealed *well*), and sent it out.

[lordlundar]

Not Gross, but certainly dirty.

I was delivering some tech-bench software into the tech room, when I saw this sound card sitting on the counter. The thing looked about 4 years old from the dust alone, but the card has only been around about 1 1/2 years. I tell the tech "man that's nasty dust." He responds "look in the case." I nearly did a double take.

No lie, no exaggeration, there was a quarter inch of dust on EVERYTHING! Dust bunnies be damned, this was mutant dust hares. I am literally surprised this thing did not light on fire, there was so much there.

[Andara Bledin]

Not Gross, but certainly dirty.

I was delivering some tech-bench software into the tech room, when I saw this sound card sitting on the counter. The thing looked about 4 years old from the dust alone, but the card has only been around about 1 1/2 years. I tell the tech "man that's nasty dust." He responds "look in the case." I nearly did a double take.

No lie, no exaggeration, there was a quarter inch of dust on EVERYTHING! Dust bunnies be damned, this was mutant dust hares. I am literally surprised this thing did not light on fire, there was so much there.

I'd bet cold hard cash that the computer in question lived in a smoking house.

It is disturbing the amount of "dust" even moderate smokers produce. So glad to be away from all of that.

^-.-^