Oh Dell – I Can’t Unscrew
Tonight I decided not to work out. I had a craving for a meal. And when I say meal, I mean some meat and potatoes and vegetables. Since my dinners are usually so ridiculous, consisting of peanuts or a spoon of peanut butter, or some salad or other stupid thing, I had the craving for the real meal.
So my snookey and I went out to Wimpy’s (not exactly elegance but we knew we could get something similar to a home-cooked dinner there) and I ordered a hot hamburger open-faced sandwich, with gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans (I hate green beans).
I ate about half of that which was probably more than I should have eaten because I could barely breathe, and took the other half home with me. I don’t know about that fullness thing though, I think I need to see a doctor because by the end of the day – meal or no meal – my stomach is bloated out like I’m 9 months pregnant. Doesn’t quite seem normal to me. Plus it feels hard, like some pressure is pushing it out like that. I gotta go get a referral one of these days when I have some time.
Anyway, after that, we came home for a nice relaxing evening, even though I have a shitload of things to do that I haven’t gotten around to doing. So I decided that tonight I would finally replace that hard drive in my laptop. I got all prepared to do that, took a look at the back of my laptop and where the Dell guy had told me the hard drive was, and proceeded to pull out my battery. Hmmm, not it.
So I called them to ask which of the parts of the laptop held my hard drive. They told me to take out the screws at the bottom right and my hard drive was right inside there. No problem. Wait. Problem. I couldn’t get the fucking screws unscrewed – they’re in there so tight they must have been screwed hydraulically.
I tried with my little precision screwdrivers… no good, I’d end up stripping the screws. I tried with a little mini phillips screwdriver and still couldn’t get the screws out.
Once again I had to call Dell to tell them I can’t get the screws out. I was passed around to three different departments until the final hardware department let me know that I shouldn’t be talking to them cuz I’m in Canada. They confirmed a number for me to call. I called the number and it was voicemail. Great technical support there… leave your name and number and we’ll get back to you some day.
So, I’ll be waiting to hear from them about how to get my new hard drive installed. So much for my relaxing, and yet trying to be productive too, night.
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Lyndon
Well I hope it isn’ t!! Get well soon sickieR 30;
Glenn
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Leya
Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
53
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face. 
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