#1190 – Lid
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
There’s a weird cognitive dissonance that can happen when you see something bad simultaneously happening to a person and an object of some value. “Oh nuts, my wife didn’t see the edge of that rug sticking up and now she is flying headfirst across the living room onto the hardwood floor and I wonder if she emailed that document she was just editing a few moments ago because that laptop sure looks like it’s going to go through that open doorway and down those cement stairs into the basement.”
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It I tried that with my new laptop, I’d probably lose the top of my skull. I bet the MacBook Air might even make for an effective guillotine blade…
Rule #1: it’s almost always more expensive to fix or replace a wife than a laptop.
Rule #2: even if you pick wrong, the laptop won’t bring it up every time you have an argument afterward. The wife, however …
Strangely enough, I’ve never experienced the split-second thought of how the expensive electrical item may be hurt if someone falls over. Maybe it’s just me.
This brings to mind the time I fell off the balcony. It was two meters off the ground – not that too bad a fall, right? Wrong. I fell back-first into the logs that were there. It -hurt-. Then again, there was also the time I fell off a ladder and had to hold onto the balcony (different balcony) about 5 meters off the ground until someone realised, “Hey, where’s Ingrid?”
As for Biff:
I keep looking at that laptop and thinking it looks like a shirt with no sleeves.
~Gwid
@ TJovian: Doubtful. I think that the MacBook Air would crumple like tinfoil before it did any damage to your head. Frankly, I’ve always thought that they look like they’d blow away in a light breeze.
@ Ray A. Right on the Mark!
Rule #1 of head-desking:
Check your contact surface for foreign objects *before* head-desking.
Who was it who said something to to effect of: Tragedy is when you fall down the stairs and break a leg. Comedy is when yo slip on a banana peel, fall down an open utility access pipe and die.
@ reynard61: This thing is pretty dense/solid. I thought much the same until I got one and experienced its durability first-hand.
I’m quite the clutz and as a result my hard wood stairs have some deep dents in them, my Air has zero.
PS: It took a second look to notice the dent in Biff’s forehead.
“Da’s a good a one, boss.”
Looks like Biff has nerdrage too.
my guess is that the hard drive will click ‘o death you before the casing dents..
Ah, tech support. I’m familiar with being a nurse to my father (he can’t reach certain pimples) and a tech support technician to my mother (After hundreds of time of setting up the TV to play DVDs).