Whose fault is this? - Retro-Renault

**Neal** · 16th August 2008, 09:50 AM

Right, so I'm sitting in the living room last night watching TV. Lisa goes up to bed.

A few minuteslater I decide to go to bed too. So I turn off the TV, lock the back door, turn off the lights etc and head for the stairs. On my way past Lisa's laptop I see the lid ajar and lit up:

I dont mess with her laptop so decided I'd just close it so I gently push the screen down to close it up.

crunch.

"WTF was that?!" I exclaim.

I open it up and this is what I find:

Lisa has left a fucking knitting needle sitting in the laptop at the back towards the hinge. WTF!??

So of course she throws a shit fit ("why would you do that!?" etc.) and has now got the arse and is not talking to me.

Now seriously, am I being really dumb here? To me that's tantamount to a booby trap. You don't see me leaving my xbox in the bath to be drenched by anyone who turns the shower on without looking, nor do I prop the door open with my sunglasses.

Obviously I'll have to buy a new screen but as far as I'm concerned it's a case of her stupidity costing me money.

Thoughts?

Bigfoot · 16th August 2008, 10:20 AM

Claim on house insurance if you have got any. A lot of the time its not worth getting the screen replaced its cheaper just to buy another laptop.

But do agree, why a knitting needle. Maybe if it was a pen. Could have placed there accidently. But was she pressing the keys with the knitting needle?

**Neal** · 16th August 2008, 10:26 AM

its a nearly new inspiron 1720 centrino duo mate, the screen is a WUXGA 1920x1200 ultragloss. definitely not cheaper to buy a new one!

**Chris H** · 16th August 2008, 10:28 AM

mate seriously. I wish that was th eonly thing I have to deal with! Wait till shes pregnant and completely psycho, you do everythign to hurt her, you always ruin/break/sabotage everything.

She never does anything wrong and so on.

And also isn't that where normal human beings store knitting needles? I mean really neal get with tyhe times.

phillip1 · 16th August 2008, 10:55 AM

i say go to pc world

**Chris H** · 16th August 2008, 11:02 AM

so not only is he in the bad books hes to go get robbed as well?

Why don't we just all go down and bugger him as well!

**Chet T16** · 16th August 2008, 01:46 PM

I quite often leave the laptop like that if its downloading something or doing a scan so i wouldn't close anyone elses

I wouldn't leave a knitting needle in it regardless

Whats she doing with a knitting needle anyway!?

**Chris H** · 16th August 2008, 02:02 PM

to poke down neals japs eye cos hes a kinky mofo

**Neal** · 16th August 2008, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chet T16

I quite often leave the laptop like that if its downloading something or doing a scan

why????

**Neal** · 16th August 2008, 02:33 PM

also, she tends to keep a couple of SD cards up there 'for safe keeping', which obviously are thin enough not to cause damage when the thing is closed. I don't know how many times I've told her not to do that. A lot.

Maybe now she will understand the reason why.

**paulhbell** · 16th August 2008, 03:36 PM

Expensive mistake, a quick web search, about £250/£300 for a new one.

I often leave my laptop on when doing a virus scan, when running a deep virus scan on a hard drive over 300gig, takes a few hours. I always leave the screen fully open though.

**Mrs. Kelly** · 16th August 2008, 06:02 PM

When you try to do something helpful, you'll be in the wrong. When you don't bother, you'll be in the wrong too. Therefore its your fault

**bidderman1969** · 16th August 2008, 06:34 PM

get your own back Neal, get a sex change, then you can blame her for everything :-)