A Story of an Idiot

Ok, so here's the story.

The background: we have cats now. 3 of them in fact. They just love to sit on my closed laptop lid because it's warm.

Once upon a midnight somewhat recently, there sat a laptop on a desk and nearby was a partially full glass of water. Deep in the night the glass of water toppled over onto the desk. The water magically disappeared completely under the laptop.

The next morning, unbeknown to said laptop owner, the computer was turned on and use began. Now, those that have computers know that once they are in use, fans start to move air around and under to keep it cool. Well, once the fans began to work, the water underneath the laptop made it's way up inside.

Suddenly there was a horrible wrenching squealing noise! The laptop owner was quite alarmed but had no idea what was going on. A short time later there appeared the dreaded "blue screen of death." (Ominous music can now be heard.)

Although another nonworking laptop was able to be used in the creation of a working laptop, alas any and all photos, videos and information on the sorely abused computer is now lost forever. Said laptop owner was very remiss in the backing up of such vital and important memories.

So, as the moral of the story goes: leaving glasses of water next to laptops that haven't been properly backed up means there is one idiot of an owner involved.

*sigh*