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Computech Dumbassery

2009 Reader Submission
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I'm not a technological genius. If I had an IQ of over 400, I wouldn't be here.

Let me recount the events that led to this morning, March 1st, at just after 9am.

My husband, James and I are avid MMORPG'ers; World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, The Lord of the Rings, name it, we've most likely got an account or two active/deactivated due to forgetting to buy a gamecard. His computer's a great deal bigger, faster and more powerful than my own. He's the real gamer in our relationship. I'm more of a subsidised second/co-op partner.

He uses his computer for everything, like most others do. Apart from his mobile phone, everything from our finances to our schedules are on (usually) his computer.

The day before, his computer had been acting oddly. It had been powering up and down, sometimes without due warning, and its sleep mode was buggering up. Twice I heard an odd noise, like something was turning over, eminating from inside, most specifically the power pack. Mine is 180v, his is 240v. The first time I didn't think anything of it. My computer's onboard fan sometimes makes a clicking noise on start-up but usually runs silent afterwards. Most computers have an odd quirk or two so I thought little of it.

The second time that happened, I got mighty suspicious that something was off about it. I did try to warn him, but he waved off my concerns like he oftenmost does. I left it at that, but secretly, I was worried, as most wives are when something of an electronic nature starts making weird sounds.

That evening, he was going terminally insane being away from downloading game patches and was hovering over me to "borrow" my computer to do the same thing. We called it a night early, mainly because he was driving me terminally insane with his behaviour.

He tried one last time before bed (and once during the night) to successfully reboot his system. It didn't work, and I was a mite on the ticked off side checking the clock at 4am and finding him in our little computer room attempting to fix his system.

Note, I did warn him, explicitly by this stage, that Monday morning was less than 24 hours away and he could last that bloody long.

Sunday morning, March 1st, 7:47am, I woke up and he woke up about five minutes later, complaining and ranting that he knows exactly what is up with his computer tower. I take it with a grain of salt - he's always making some commentary about computers when literally, he's a clueless morgan when it boils down to it. We may have built our systems in the past, but when the slightest thing goes wrong, I'm not game enough to touch or reboot a faulty system without a good life insurance policy behind me.

8:42am, he's back in our little computer room attempting to reboot his system. Again. I have lost all patience by this stage, and I tell him this. He's grating on my last nerves with his actions. Couple this with his ranting that "It's the power pack, I know it! I'm going to try something! Give me a second to unplug all this stuff!" and by then, no wife wants to hear that sort of thing.

It's oftenmost a prelude to disaster.

When a wife has a gut feeling that something is about to go horrifically wrong, they're often seated closer to the door of the room. I almost toppled off my chair when I heard the god almighty bang that eminated from his power pack when he hooked up his tower to the living room surge protector. The time was 9:03am by my watch. My computer monitor flickered briefly, indicating at least that the amount of voltage surging that tower was close to over the amount it could handle.

To pardon the explicit language I uttered in response to the sound and my monitor responding to such a electrical surge, I rushed into the living room to the smell of melted wiring and hubby on the carpeted floor with his tower in his lap.

Shaking like a leaf, it took a good hard slap to the side of his face to snap him out of his state. Now, I'm not saying that's the best method to use on a probable electrical shock victim, but he definitely asked for that!

He took a good few hours to calm down. Me on the other hand let fly with some CHOICE words on his stupidity.

To reiterate how much voltage put itself through that power pack even after half of it was absorbed by the surge protector? You know how they usually have that back ventilation grill? That was totally melted AWAY when I took the cover off that tower at 12pm to get a good look at the damage front.

And his words after he calmed down? Adding to his stupidity almost tenfold?

He was worried MORE about the cost of replacing his computer tower than he was about his own LIFE.

I can't begin to tell you how emotional I am at knowing he would place a replaceable piece of electronic machinery above his own life. You also have no idea how much I'd like to drown him in the damned gene pool even after 6 and a half years of married bliss.

My husband has done some remarkably dumb things as a child, but this is his first REAL dumbassed boneheaded move as an Adult.

I want to honestly make sure that the lesson sticks. He's prime Darwin Award material, even if it's the only life-threatening mistake he's actually made in his entire life.

There's also a part of me that, when I look at him now, I see a frazzled Guardian Angel with scorched wings standing behind him. I don't believe in religion all that much, but something sure as hell was protecting my stupid husband today.

I hope there's not a next time, I tell you what.

Submitted on 02/28/2009

Submitted by: Victoria O'Neil
Reference: Personal Account: Frazzled Wife, Dumbass Husband - March 1st, 9:03am, 2009

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks for a great writeup, Victoria, but alas incidents involving dolts and electricity are amazingly common. We get lots of stories of people zapping themselves all sorts of ways.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said! (Unfortunately.) But I swear, this guy has the male ego/testosterone overload requirements of the most sublime Darwin winners! My congratulations (and sympathy) for putting up with him!


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