I’m an idiot. Go ahead, it’s okay to say it. I am a screaming moron.
I come home yesterday, coffee in-hand situated in one of those cardboard carryout trays they give you, per daily routine. As I get off on my floor, I take my earbuds out, place them in the tray, and put my iPod in the tray as well, so I don’t forget them in my coat when I hang it up. Also pretty routine. So I get in the door and, being that it’s chilly out, the coffees need a bit of warming – pretty common in the chilly months, so into the microwave they go.
Six seconds. That’s how long it took me to realize I didn’t take my iPod and IEMs off the tray! Six seconds they were in there. But six seconds is enough.
The damage:
Right ear of the IEMs is half blown; it peaks at about 1/4 the volume of the left.
The iPod Touch still works fine except for WiFi, which is nearly dead. It can see my router if I’m about 2-3 feet away, but only with 1 bar of signal strength, and it can’t connect.
I am going to call the nearest Apple Store to see if I can get a warranty exchange in-store. I’d really rather not have to send it off to Apple. The IEMs I’m just going to have to scrap and buy a new pair.
I am a drooling, tongue-waggling, toe-sucking idiot.
I was sitting here trying to think of a similar story of my own where I lost or destroyed something valuable, to make you feel better, and I got nothin’. That just sucks.
I once lost my cell phone.
I looked high and low. I called it’s number. I back-tracked my steps. I enlisted the help of my son. All to no avail. I got myself another after four days.
6 months later, while getting some frozen corn, I found it.
Yup. Musta gotten some ice cubes for a drink and inadvertantly set it down in the freezer. I tried to charge it, but abandoned that effort once small, white wisps of smoke began to appear…
Yeah, pretty much. It’s OK though, we all have permission to be that way on occasion.
Most basic cookbooks have a recipe for making a baked potato. They always include the instruction to poke a few holes in it. One night, I decided that that instruction was useless and silly. I did end up poking with a fork an hour later to see if it was done.
The results were rather spectacular. It was like watching a Jiffy Pop commercial in fast motion. Cleanup was a bitch.
Not nearly as expensive, but I found out the hard way that you can NOT hardboil an egg in the microwave. Back when I was much younger and microwaves were relatively new, I put a whole egg in and set the timer for a couple of minutes.
I should’ve known something was amiss when the first crack appeared. I probably should have shut the microwave off when bubbles started boiling out of the crack. But, I waited until the inevitable BOOM! and had to clean half cooked egg out of all the nooks and crannys of the inside of the oven.
Yeah, if you microwave an egg, take it out of the shell, and {THIS IS IMPORTANT} break the yolk. If you don’t break the yolk, when you poke it with a fork, it will explode hot (cooked) egg yolk all over you and your entire kitchen. :smack:
Not too long ago, I nuked some butter in a little ceramic dish. Just about when it was done, it seemed to find a nucleation point. Boom. Very little was left in the dish. Very much was all over the walls of the microwave.
Poor Mindy. It happens to the best of us. I left some bread in the oven and then completely forgot about it when I turned the oven back on, up to 450F in order to cook a pizza. When I opened the oven to put the pizza in, I was greeted by a charred ruin and lots of smoke.
So, you ARE going to tell them you nuked it, right, because I can tell you right now that “end-user-damage”, A.K.A. ABUSE, is NOT covered by Apple’s warranty…
what’ll probably happen is the Apple store will replace your Touch, due to no visible damage, but when they find out that the machine has been abused, and they will find out (there’s probably scorched circuits on the Touch’s logic board), they’ll probably bill the store for the price of the Touch
I hate customers that try to duck responsibility, you NUKED your iPod, own up to it and deal with the results, don’t try to pass it off as a “defective” product…
Well, there was the time I bunged an Arby’s burger into the microwave, still in the foil. Into the work microwave, mind, with everyone watching. The sparks were spectacular.
On the other hand, sliced grapes, cut side up and with the edges touching you should definitely put in a microwave for 30 seconds. I’m not kidding, it’s beautiful.
Oh, that’s nothing. A fraudulent, drooling, tongue-wagggling, toe-sucking idiot is much worse. Please post when the deed is done so we can all tell you it is ok.
